❤️ 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.
💊A mint that can make your teeth whiter
Scientists have genetically engineered a mint that rebuilds destroyed enamel and makes your teeth whiter.
💡Optimist's Edge: This is how scientists are trying to outmaneuver aging to give you a longer life
Since the beginning of humanity, humans have had to find contentment in the dilemma that living means aging and death. But old age is not inevitable. There are several ways to slow down and reverse aging and this is what you need to know to have a chance at a 100-year life.
✈ The sound of airplanes – from thunder to the rumbling of a hairdryer
A new sound-insulating material can lower the noise level of an airplane engine by 80 percent, and at the same time reduce the weight of the insulating material.
👃 An electronic nose smells cancer in blood samples
A regular blood test can show if you have cancer cells in your blood and if a tumor is benign or malignant.
💉The HPV vaccine is better than expected
Women who have received the HPV vaccine have a broader protection against cancer than previously thought, a new study concludes.
👩🏻🔬 Study opens for chip implants in humans
The Swedish chip implant company DSruptive Subdermals publishes a report from the first clinical study ever with temperature-measuring implants for humans.
🦠 Gut bacteria can decrease the side-effects of chemotherapy
A new study shows that certain types of gut bacteria could help protect other beneficial bacteria that would otherwise be eliminated by the drugs used in chemotherapy.
🧬Gene Therapy could help children without an immune system
In a new study, 48 out of 50 children with severe immune disease were cured. The results were recently presented in the New England Journal of Medicine.
🏥 Zimbabwe sets up virtual hospitals for covid patients
Virtual Hospitals have the potential to overcome hindrances in Zimbabwe that prevents people from accessing healthcare.