❤️ 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 way for the blind to 'read' letters traced on their brains with electricity
A precise pattern of electrical pulses allows people who have lost their sight to identify individual letters.
🦠 Malaria is "completely stopped" by microbes
Researchers have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The breakthrough has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
🗣 Online therapy is faster and as effective as a personal meeting
Providing therapy over the internet works about as well as meeting eye-to-eye and allows the therapist to treat more patients.
💊 Breakthrough for treatment of lung cancer - study released two years in advance
A very promising result means that AstraZeneca will release a study two years ahead of schedule.
🧠 Doctors transplant neurons made from brain cells to treat Parkinson's
Parkinson's patient, 69, becomes the first in the world to receive transplant of brain cells made from his own skin in breakthrough experimental treatment that has given him the ability to swim and tie his shoes again.
💪 Arm prosthesis that gives a sense of feeling back
A mind controlled arm prosthesis with feeling gives the amputee a better opportunity to grasp different types of objects.
❤ AI can relieve cardiac specialists by automatically analyzing ECG
An AI system can interpret ECG measurements and quickly provide physicians with information about which patients are at risk.
🦟 Malaysia records zero domestic Malaria cases for the second year in a row
The deadly mosquito-borne disease is on its way out in Malaysia after maintaining its status of zero indigenous cases for the second year running.
🏃 Electronic skin uses sweat instead of batteries to power health sensors
A new type of electronic skin can measure different health values and send the result via Bluetooth to a receiver.