http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/29/google-cancer-heart-attack-detecting-pill
Google is working on a nanoparticle pill that could identify cancers, heart attacks and other diseases before they become a problem.
It is part of the move away from reactive medicine, which treats diseases once they have become serious enough to cause symptoms for patients prompting them to go and see a doctor and towards pre-emptive medicine, which catches signs of disease much earlier, before it becomes a problem
I think that this is just another business venture in which google can invest in. this will cause a decline in people going to see the doctors if this is successful but i think people will doubt the product in the start and this product may be looked down upon by doctors and the NHS. On the other hand it could be that the product is such a success that it could be sold to large health organisations and therefore increasing the profit made by google.
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