❤️ Health Tech
🩸 More people may receive dialysis at home
Around 4,000 people in Sweden have such severe problems with their kidneys that they need dialysis to clean the blood. For many, this means constant trips to the hospital to undergo blood dialysis. But there are also those who can take care of the dialysis themselves...
💊 New pain reliever without the side effects of opioids
New substances that activate adrenaline receptors instead of opioid receptors have a similar pain-relieving effect, without the negative side effects such as hypoventilation and addiction, reports the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg...
🦻 Hearing aid can alleviate tinnitus
Approximately 20 percent of Sweden's population has tinnitus, which means that they hear sounds in their ears without it being caused by any external sound source. For most, it is not a major problem, but two to three percent have severe problems that can lead to...
💊 Pills can replace insulin syringes
Insulin is an example of medication that cannot be taken in the form of a pill: it must be injected. But a new type of capsule could make it possible to deliver insulin into the body by having the patient swallow a pill.Researchers at MIT in the United States have...
