Cough-Reading Cell Phones Could Diagnose Illnesses, Scientists Claim

Phone Could Diagnose Cough Into your mobile phone for instant diagnosis
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Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients simply to cough into their phone, and it will tell them whether they have cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases.

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