❤️ 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.
📗 The book that explores why we age and why we don't have to
The first person to turn 150 may already be born, says David Sinclair. He is one of the foremost profiles in longevity research and explores the subject in the book "Lifespan: Why We Age ― and Why We Don't Have To".
🌸 Scientists can now predict what the whole pollen season is going to look like
The daily forecasts for grass pollen levels can now be supplemented with forecasts for what the whole season will look like.
👨💻AI creates whole new proteins
Researchers have created an AI that quickly creates and sorts proteins. A breakthrough for the science of making medicine.
⛑ Smart bandages can detect covid
Bandages with sensors for temperature and tension in the skin can self-monitor so that the wound heals better. The same bandage could also potentially be used to alert for Covid-symptoms.
🌏 Corona makes it easy to be optimistic about coopetition
The recent vaccine race could be the first impressive example of how cooperative competition, or coopetition, on a larger scale will fold out in the 2020s, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
💉 Matt Ridley: The unexpected history and miraculous success of vaccines
At a time when the miraculous success of vaccines has transformed the battle against the pandemic it is fitting to recall the general idea, and unexpected history, behind vaccination, writes Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works.
💔 New method reduces the risk of recurrence in myocardial infarction
By using infrared light and ultrasound, researchers can now see plaques in the blood vessels that cannot be detected by traditional examinations.
💉 The fervor surrounding the Astra vaccine once again shows how the media drives fear - and it costs lives
The media's obsession over the AstraZeneca vaccine can be dismissed as part of the media logic and the truism "if it bleeds it leads". But in this case, and in many others, it costs lives. It can not simply be shrugged off.
👂 3D map for the inner ear can provide better treatment of hearing damage
By adapting cochlear implants to each person's cochlea, we can get more effective treatment of severe hearing damage.