❤️ 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.
🏆 Battery-powered drones deliver COVID-19 vaccine
Vaccination against COVID-19 is a challenge in sparsely populated areas. Zipline has experience in distributing healthcare equipment outside cities. Now you get a new assignment.
📱 Epione.net creates a digital toolbox for handling Covid-19
Founded by four passionate young Africans, epione.net is a healthcare company that is using technology to solve what they believe is Africa's biggest healthcare challenge – a siloed approach to patient management and treatment.
☑ AI can diagnose ADHD with 99 percent certainty
An AI has learned to recognize patterns in the brain that show if a person has ADHD and also which treatments can work best.
📯 A new artificial heart has been approved by the EU
The EU approves a new artificial heart to make it easier for patients awaiting a heart transplant
👁 Blind man regained his sight with an artificial cornea
New method makes it easier and faster to implant artificial corneas, which gives many more people the chance to regain their sight.
🦟 A new dawn for malaria control in Southern Africa
A new application system uses artificial intelligence to detect the presence of malaria parasites in the blood cell of a patient, by just submitting a picture of the patient’s blood cell.
🥇 Gitanjali Rao - born 2005 - named Kid of the Year by Time Magazine
An exciting future is created when more young people get the chance to really work with what they believe in. Gitanjali Rao shows the way.
🚑 AI helps doctors find breast cancer up to two years earlier
A new AI could help radiologists prioritize mammography images and detect breast cancer earlier.
🧠 Doctor Mouna: Understand your pandemic brain – and get optimistic about the future
The coronavirus has kidnapped our brain. The development is much more positive than most people are aware of, says Mouna Esmaeilzadeh, doctor, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and not least Warp News Expert in Health Tech.