❤️ 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.
🍱 No more food poisoning with smarter packaging
An environmentally friendly food packaging can help keep food edible longer and eliminate harmful bacteria.
🔬Simple test finds undetected cancer
A new cancer test provides a cheap and easy way to detect cancer - even where the symptoms are unclear.
🌿 Hemp - the start of a veg-tech revolution?
Cultivated for millennia and used in many sectors such as textiles and food, the most recent research shows how hemp can replace many synthetic products in construction, automotive, environmental remediation, and pharma.
💉 Third vaccine dose offers elderly excellent protection
A third dose of covid-19 vaccine provides very good protection even for the elderly who are more vulnerable to more serious COVID-19.
❤ New model can predict heart problems decades in advance
Researchers in the United States have developed a model to show if you are at risk of suffering heart problems within the next 30 years.
👁 Eye drops can replace reading glasses
An eye drop every day means that you no longer need to keep track of where you put your reading glasses.
🧫 An incredible breakthrough – which almost no one has heard of
Humans have struggled with one of the grand challenges of biology, namely understanding how proteins are designed. Suddenly, last year, it was solved by an AI. The event happened to be the start of something even greater...
🔬Easier to spot ALS with new method
A new method makes it easier to diagnose ALS earlier on in the disease. All that is needed from the patient is a simple blood test.
🌆 Green spaces help people feel less lonely
Studies show that adding green spaces to cities can help people feel less lonely - and become healthier.