❤️ 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.
🧠 Artificial neurons could help us repair brain injuries using silicon
The goal is to make it possible to repair defective circuits that cause conditions like heart failure and sleep apnea, and could also potentially replace damaged nerves caused by spinal injuries or help connect robotic limbs to people’s nervous systems.
🧬 The first person in the U.S. to have genes edited with CRISPR
Last week, a woman named Victoria Gray became the first person in the U.S. to have her cells edited with CRISPR to help with her sickle cell anemia.
🔬 A possible treatment for deadly pancreatic cancer found
Pancreatic cancer, which maintains a 95% mortality rate, is resistant to all current treatments. But now scientist have discovered a molecule that reduces the cancer cells by 90 percent.
💓 Doctors revive a 'dead heart' for transplant in a groundbreaking medical first.
A team of surgeons at Duke University [https://www.duke.edu/] in Durham, NC have become the first in the United States to revive a heart harvested from a deceased donor. The process is known as Donation after Circulatory Death, or DCD and is performed with a technique to run
🩸 The erstwhile fantasy of a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease has become reality
Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer's disease, damaging clumps of protein start to build up in their brains. Now, a blood test to detect such early brain changes has moved one step closer to clinical use.
👩💻 A new artificial intelligence can predict epileptic seizures one hour ahead of time with 99.6% accuracy
The system will give people suffering from epilepsy warning that a seizure is imminent, enabling them to take medication—or alert a friend, relative or medical professional.
📭 Drones delivering prescription medicine to residential doorsteps for the first time
Last month UPS announced that it was the first to receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its full drone airline. It allowed them to expand upon their small drone delivery pilot programs into a nation wide network.
👨⚕️ Surgeons place trauma patients in suspended animation for the first time
Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death.
🔬 After more than two decades of research, the world finally has an approved Ebola vaccine
Ebola vaccine approved in Europe in landmark moment in fight against a deadly disease.