❤️ 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.
💉 Corona vaccine significantly more effective than expected
Tests indicate that both Pfizer's and Moderna's corona vaccine, which is now in phase 3 studies, provides significantly more effective protection than previously estimated.
💉 New corona vaccine registry should provide faster information on side effects
By linking registers for those who have been vaccinated with other health data registers, it will be easier to discover if an upcoming corona vaccine has any side effects.
💉 Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective early analysis shows
Drugmaker Pfizer reports that an early data analysis of their coronavirus vaccine shows that it is more than 90% effective. This is significantly higher than expected.
☘ Greener schoolyards can give children a better immune system
Preschool children got a stronger immune system when their schoolyard got more vegetation.
🔬 Faster cancer diagnoses with AI microscope
A microscope equipped with AR and AI should relieve doctors by making a quick initial cancer diagnosis.
⛴ The world's smallest ship sails in blood vessels - loaded with what then?
Nanoparticles that travel in blood vessels must be able to release drugs in exactly the right place. Now it is a matter of connecting form with function. A small boat plays an important role.
🖥 AI helps us detect Alzheimer's earlier
Detecting Alzheimer's at an early stage can give us better medicines for the disease in the future.
💉 New malaria remedy is twelve times more effective than older remedy
A simple and inexpensive method makes pesticides against malaria mosquitoes much more effective.
🔬 An algorithm can predict who can get tuberculosis and save millions of lives
Researchers have created an algorithm to help doctors initiate treatment even before the disease has broken out.