❤️ 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.
👁 Smart contact lens puts digital information directly in the field of view
Mojo Vision's contact lens also functions as a monitor and can insert digital information directly into the field of view.
🔬 Cancer rates see largest ever single-year drop in mortality
Fewer and fewer people are dying from cancer in the United States every year, with 2017 showing the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported.
👩⚕️ Google AI as good as doctors to identify breast cancer, and will soon be better
Googles Deepmind has developed an AI that helps identify cancer in brest x-rays, mammography. The AI is already as good as, in one test, and better than human doctors, in another test.
💪 First paralyzed person to be treated with stem cells is making big progress
It's been over three years since Kris Boesen received the treatment and he has shown incredible progress during rehabilitation. He has regained movement his hands and arms, and some of the feeling in one of his feet. He hopes that this same treatment can help him walk someday as well.
🧠 Artificial neurons could help us repair brain injuries using silicon
The goal is to make it possible to repair defective circuits that cause conditions like heart failure and sleep apnea, and could also potentially replace damaged nerves caused by spinal injuries or help connect robotic limbs to people’s nervous systems.
🧬 The first person in the U.S. to have genes edited with CRISPR
Last week, a woman named Victoria Gray became the first person in the U.S. to have her cells edited with CRISPR to help with her sickle cell anemia.
🔬 A possible treatment for deadly pancreatic cancer found
Pancreatic cancer, which maintains a 95% mortality rate, is resistant to all current treatments. But now scientist have discovered a molecule that reduces the cancer cells by 90 percent.
💓 Doctors revive a 'dead heart' for transplant in a groundbreaking medical first.
A team of surgeons at Duke University [https://www.duke.edu/] in Durham, NC have become the first in the United States to revive a heart harvested from a deceased donor. The process is known as Donation after Circulatory Death, or DCD and is performed with a technique to run
🩸 The erstwhile fantasy of a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease has become reality
Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer's disease, damaging clumps of protein start to build up in their brains. Now, a blood test to detect such early brain changes has moved one step closer to clinical use.