❤️ 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.
🚴♀️ App helps you exercise more and prevent disease
An app can give advice on how much and how hard you need to exercise to reduce the risk of getting many common diseases.
💊 Existing drugs also work against sleep apnea
Drugs currently used for epilepsy can also reduce respiratory arrest by more than 50 percent in those with sleep apnea.
🧠 Tiny implant could turn back the clock for Parkinson's patients
A new small implant can relieve the symptoms of those with Parkinson's and requires much less surgery than today's implants.
Warp Impact: 😟 The headset that treats depression with brain stimulation
Brain stimulation can be used against depression, but also to improve the brain's ability. "It is a very exciting field," says Erik Rehn, co-founder of Flow Neuroscience.
🔬 Tailor-made treatments - the next step in the fight against MS
Researchers have found a way to regulate the immune system that could give us better treatments for MS in the future.
👶 Blood tests can predict the risk of sudden infant death syndrome
Lack of an enzyme can prevent some babies from waking up when they have difficulty breathing and then die in sudden infant death syndrome.
💊 Heart medicine could give us new cancer treatments
Medicines for, among other things, heart disease and depression also work against certain types of cancer and can give us a better opportunity to treat metastases.
🚌 Electric buses mean better health for residents
Less noise and better health for those who live along the bus line. Those were the results when hybrid buses were replaced by electric ones.
👁 Ultrasound can help visually impaired see again
By stimulating damaged visual cells with ultrasound, it is possible to heal the damaged cells and restore vision.