❤️ 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 us detect Alzheimer's earlier
Detecting Alzheimer's at an early stage can give us better medicines for the disease in the future.
💉 New malaria remedy is twelve times more effective than older remedy
A simple and inexpensive method makes pesticides against malaria mosquitoes much more effective.
🔬 An algorithm can predict who can get tuberculosis and save millions of lives
Researchers have created an algorithm to help doctors initiate treatment even before the disease has broken out.
🎞 AI can automatically describe images for the blind and visually impaired
A new technology allows AI to describe images better than a human can, which can be very helpful for the visually impaired who use computers and mobile phones.
🦜 Animal prosthetics: 13 animals that were given a new lease on life
Prosthetics are amazing. Not only do they give human beings back their independence and mobility, but animals are also benefiting from them too. Here are 13 great stories of animals getting back on their feet, fins, and wings thanks to their new prosthetics.
🔬 Nanotechnology makes it easier to tailor cancer treatments
A combination of radiation and the delivery of drugs at the nano-level gives hope for much more effective cancer treatments in the future.
⚡ Electrical stimulation of the tongue relieves tinnitus
A combination of sound and weak electrical pulses means that the brain focuses less on the tinnitus sound.
💊 AI should give us safer medicines
In-depth learning will give researchers better information about how a drug works in the human body.
💉 HPV vaccine can reduce the risk of getting cervical cancer by 88 percent
Vaccination reduces the risk of cervical cancer and has the greatest effect if the vaccine is given to young people.