At TEDx Edinburgh today, the BBC reports, mathematician Max Little today launched a new project that uses a speaker's voice to help diagnose Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's, which is a devastating progressive neurological disease that develops very gradually and often starts with very slight tremor in one hand, is notoriously hard to diagnose as there are currently no blood tests to that can help doctors test for the disease. Voice however, says Little, is affected as much by Parkinson's as limb movement and his algorithms can currently detect the symptoms of the disease with 86% accuracy. Little recently became a TED Fellow and is now working to improve the accuracy of his algorithms and hopes to make his tools available to doctors within the next two years. If you have three minutes, you can even help him in his mission by making a simple 3-minute call to an automated system that will ask you to answer a few questions and repeat a few sentences. Besides in the U.S. (1-857-284-8035), the team is also offering call-in numbers in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Canada and the UK.drew peterson untouchable herman cain south carolina palmetto rob lowe fox news sanctum the notebook
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