Do you have any good ideas about new medical treatments?

Hi, my name is Jan, I'm studying Medicine.


I'm trying to think of an honours research project.





Can you help?





It can be:


1) To design a new medical invention, or


2) It can be to work out if doing 'A' causes the disease 'B'





If you have a hunch or a brilliant idea, please let me know and I might be able to do a bit of research into it.





Cheers,





Jan

Do you have any good ideas about new medical treatments?
Recent guidelines for asthma control suggest that peak flow monitoring alone is insufficient for good control. The experts are now advocating spirometry or at least FEV determination.


To me, this has the potential of taking asthma treatment out of the hands of community physicians and into the allergy/pulmonary medicine specialists. This will have a great impact on expense of asthma care, already sky high, as well as access to care.





You might consider a project looking into FEV monitoring or complete spirometry with equipment that is readily affordable and the associated training programs to ensure that the testing can be reliably done in the community physician's office.





This isn't exactly a new invention, I know, but it is a needed project for better control of a common disease.