❤️ 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.
🧠 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.
💉 Vaccine against meningitis can reduce the risk of mental illness
Research points to a link between meningitis in childhood and mental disorders later on.
🧠 New drug "rejuvenates" the brain in mice
A treatment gives old mice as good memory and cognitive abilities as when they were young.
💉 A biosensor can detect antibodies to Covid-19 in ten seconds
Rapid tests with a low margin of error make it possible to know how well protection a vaccine dose provides to each patient.
💧 Hydration might be a key to happiness
A new survey shows being properly hydrated might be a key to happiness.
🚑 Artificial bone heals severe bone fractures
A new packaging of existing materials and drugs gives doctors a better opportunity to treat severe fractures.
🧠 The Cyborg Race is on – Musk not the only one connecting peoples brains with machines
Elon Musk's Neuralink has competition. British BIOS, German CereGate, and Swiss Mindmaze are just some of the European companies that are all working brain-machine interfaces.
🧬 From games to science breakthrough - the story of AlphaFold
The history of computers competing against humans is long, and often attracts enormous attention. But what is it good for? What does it matter if a computer can win in chess, Go, or Starcraft? We got the answer when AlphaFold solved a 50-year old grand challenge in biology.
🗣 Digital therapy provides effective help against anxiety in Covid times
Online CBT helps those who feel a great deal of anxiety about Covid to be able to manage their anxiety.