EXCERPT

A pregnant woman undergoing tests in hospital has her biological information plugged into a computer. The results say that she is highly likely to damage her pelvic floor muscles during the birth and will probably suffer from incontinence years later. Armed with this information, doctors intervene to minimise the damage as her baby is born, and the problems are avoided.

It sounds like the sort of predictive healthcare that we cannot expect for decades, but British researchers working on a huge collaborative medical research project have said that advances like this are not far away.

SOURCE

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/in-silico-first-steps-towards-a-computer-simulation-of-the-human-body-9340781.html