❤️ Health Tech
Health Tech, or digital health, helps us understand and take control of our own health. But we also cover more traditional health news like medicines, vaccines and medical procedures.
🔬 One step closer to public prostate cancer screening
A new method reduces the risk of treating harmless tumors, with the risk of side effects, and opens the way for general screening to find prostate cancer early.
💊 Cure for MS-like disease
Immunotherapy, inspired by revolutionary cancer treatment, eliminates disease-causing cells in MS-like disease.
🧠 Alzheimer's can be diagnosed before symptoms appear
A new method can detect people who are 20-40 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.
🧠 Higher heat makes for better brain surgery
A Swedish research group has found a simple way to reduce the number of repeat operations required in a certain type of brain surgery.
🦻 Airpods can work well as a hearing aid
Wireless headphones can be an inexpensive alternative to hearing aids and work just as well in some environments.
🧫 Faster analysis provides earlier treatment of urinary tract infection
A new test provides faster answers to which bacteria is causing a patient's urinary tract infection and may also lead to antibiotics that are no longer used being given new life.
⏱️ Ancient diseases can become modern medicine
Bacteria associated with the ancient disease leprosy can reprogram cells to make the liver grow.
🧘♀️ Mindfulness can work just as well as antidepressants
Meditation can serve as an alternative to antidepressants for those suffering from anxiety.
🧠 Screening for stroke can save both money and lives
A simple screening can show who has atrial fibrillation and who therefore needs blood thinners to reduce the risk of stroke.