Nearly 49 million people suffer from blood poisoning, sepsis, each year, and eleven million of those people die. Sepsis is a deceptive disease where the early symptoms are similar to the symptoms of several other diseases.The progress of sepsis can also be very fast,...
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in Sweden and every year more than 10,000 new cases are discovered in the country. More than 2,000 people also die each year from prostate cancer.One reason for the high mortality rates is that it's difficult to...
Exercise has a lot of benefits. This is hardly a surprise to anyone, but exactly how much exercise is required to achieve different goals is harder to say. To get an answer to this question, a research team from the University of Pittsburgh in the USA decided to...
Polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, are substances used to repel grease, dirt and water. They are found in everything from frying pans to clothes and beauty products. A peculiarity of these substances is that they are very difficult to degrade and some do not seem to...
Things nearly turned ugly for you. You almost ended up becoming a banker?"Haha, yes," laughs Pernilla Westergren, founder, and CEO of Petgood. "I was an investment banker in London and worked for a Nordic private equity company. But I have always been...
A heart attack can occur when least expected, but researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK believe that an AI can predict when the attack will occur, reports the IEEE Spectrum. And that by just looking at pictures of your retina, which can be taken during a...