❤️ 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.
Vaccine against 1.5 million killer tuberculosis is a step closer
💉 Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people around the world each year. This vaccine could revolutionize treatment and provide long-term protection. It has already cleared a critical phase of clinical trials and been tested on more than 3,500 adults in TB endemic regions of South Africa, Kenya and Zambia, researchers
A.I. Allowed a Paralyzed Person to 'Handwrite' Using His Mind
Imagine scribbling down some notes using your mind, and A.I. interprets those thoughts into writing. Brain-computer interfaces allow people to control computer inputs with their minds. While the technology is in its very early stages, it is showing great promise. Especially for paralyzed people. People who are fully paralyzed,
These eye drops could soon help improve your vision
One of the most frustrating parts of growing older is not being able to read the small print as well as you used to. Fortunately, for those fed up with squinting at menus in poorly lit restaurants, there may soon be a solution: vision-improving eye drops. The eye drops, created
Eye drops that reverse poor vision are one step closer to market
Eye drops that can reverse poor vision is one step closer to market after showing to improve farsightedness in a clinical trial. ️Farsightedness is extremely common, occurring in more than half of individuals over the age of 45. The drops offer temporary relief reversal of farsightedness. Their effects can be
Huge study finds this cheap drug could save thousands of head injury patients
UK doctors have discovered that a cheap and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year if it was routinely given to people brought into hospitals with head injuries. The drug is called Tranexamic acid, and it apparently helps stop the bleeding in and around the
Building an "Atlas" of the Human Body
An ambitious new project coordinated by the National Institutes of Health [https://commonfund.nih.gov/hubmap]has set out to map the tens of trillions of cells in our bodies to better understand how they work in unison and keep us alive. Dubbed “The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program”, the goal
Surgeon successfully conducts world’s first remote heart surgery
While robotics entered the world of medicine almost two decades ago, using robots to perform complicated surgical operations from a distance has been a pipe dream – that is up until now. Thanks to a new technological breakthrough, a surgeon in India has successfully performed the first remote heart surgery on
Scientists Just Found New Antibiotic Molecules—Right In the Human Microbiome
The human microbiome is the dark matter of biology: we know it’s there and critically balances health from disease. We can broadly examine microbe members with advanced DNA sequencing methods and infer their species makeup. With several doses of antibiotics, we can even observe what happens when we temporarily
Bill Gates has some optimistic predictions about the future of global health
Speaking to an audience at Cambridge University this week, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates made some optimistic predictions about the future of global health. Gates says investing in scientific innovation will allow world health organizations to significantly reduce world hunger and eliminate malaria in the next 20 years. Gates, who recently