❤️ Health Tech
📲 Safer abortions with telemedicine
Every year, 25 million women are forced to undergo unsafe abortions and 25,000 die from the procedure. The reason can be anything from laws that prohibit or make abortions more difficult to the women's lack of access to the right care.Now researchers at the...
👶 New model gives pregnant women a more accurate date of birth
Knowing exactly when a child is due is important both for the mother-to-be and the maternity clinic. But the models used to predict when birth will occur are not always so accurate. Especially for first-time mothers, it often goes wrong as they many times are past...
🦟 Success for vaccine against malaria
Researchers from the University of Oxford have tested a malaria vaccine, called R21, that works better than any of the vaccines we use today.The WHO has set a goal that a vaccine must provide 75 percent protection for the parasite that spreads malaria to die out in...
🍯 Manuka honey can help prevent cystic fibrosis
Scientists have found that manuka honey can kill a number of drug resistant bacterial infections. One example is Mycobacterium abscessus which usually affects patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) or bronchiectasis. They also found that adding the honey reduced the...
