❤️ 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.
💊 AI helps find new drugs
An AI is being tasked with analyzing huge amounts of medical data, based upon which it'll be able to predict how to create medicines capable of curing serious diseases.
🩸Preventive medication and app to fight malaria
A promising new preventive measure is being introduced to, as a first step, prevent malaria in vulnerable children. Combined with an app, it could be an important step towards eradicating the disease.
🔬 Biomarker can warn of diabetes years in advance
A protein can show if you are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes almost two decades before you become ill.
💊 Pill reduces the risk of severe Covid by 89 percent
A new pill has proven to be very effective against Covid-19, even for risk groups.
🍔 Yeast makes plants taste like meat
Reprogrammed yeast cells can produce animal fat, which will make plant-based foods taste more like "real" meat.
Algorithm can tell if you have blood poisoning
A new Swedish invention using AI is able to distinguish between severe sepsis and other milder conditions. This means that thousand of lives could be saved - every year.
💉 Bye, cancer? What the vaccine revolution could mean for you
Call it the silver lining of the pandemic. The Covid-19 vaccine miracle just may be the beginning of the end for cancer, malaria, and other killer diseases, writes Ulrika Gerth.
🧫 The patient's own muscle cells could be used in diabetes treatment
By getting the body's own muscle cells to consume sugar faster, it is possible to bring down blood sugar levels to normal levels for those with type 2 diabetes.
🧫 New method finds cancer cells before they create tumors
A blood or saliva test is all that is needed to see if a person has cancer cells in the body and what type of cancer it is.