❤️ 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.
💉 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.
💪 Space experiment on muscles could give us longer lives
By studying muscle tissue in microgravity, the MicroAge project hopes to enable the elderly to maintain muscle mass. This could mean healthier, more independent and longer lives.
🍗 Food printing could increase appetite in the elderly
3D-printed food could bring back the joy of eating for older people, which is associated with health benefits and an improved quality of life in general.
🔬Faster and more accurate Parkinson's diagnoses
A new method provides much more accurate Parkinson's diagnoses and may lead to new types of drugs against the disease in the future.