❤️ 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.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Let the machines take care of your health data
Do you own your health data? Or do you even know where it is? Your health data is the gold you need to get in charge of, and then let AI work its magic.
👨⚕️ AI helps doctors work better
An AI can help pathologists go through images of cell samples faster to find cancer cells, and doctors also help the AI to become better at analyzing the images.
🥓 There's a new meat in town
Not ready to give up on meat yet? Don't worry, there are many options. Sustainable meat, fake meat, cultured meat: technology offers healthy and climate-friendly "meaty" alternatives in the plant-based diet of the future.
🦿 Sound waves can help bone fractures heal faster
A chip can generate sound waves that cause stem cells to form bone cells in exactly the right place in the body.
🩸 Faster treatment of blood poisoning with graphene sensors
A sensor made in the graph can reduce the time it takes to diagnose someone who has had sepsis from hours to minutes, which can save many lives.
🔬 Better diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer
New substances can bind to tumors and give an earlier diagnosis of life-threatening prostate cancer.
🧠 Exercise can improve memory in the elderly
A walk three times a week is enough to improve the memory of people aged 55 and older.
💧 New method reduces PFAS in water
By heating water under high pressure, it is possible to break down PFAS substances that would not otherwise degrade in nature.
👊 Pernilla Westergren makes dog food from insects: "I want to start a dog food revolution"
Pernilla Westergren changed careers from investment banking to selling dog food made from insects. That reduces the dogs climate paw prints and is also better for their health.