❤️ Health Tech
🧫 New method can show whether prostate cancer needs to be treated or not
Over 10,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed and 2,200 people die from the disease each year. But the chance of survival is still relatively good. 85.8 percent of men who receive a prostate cancer diagnosis live for ten years after receiving the...
📞 Others appreciate unexpected communication more than we think
Humans are social beings who feel good about being in contact with other people. However, we underestimate how much it is appreciated that we contact someone, writes the American Psychological Association (APA). A new study of nearly 6,000 participants, published in...
🦠Easier and cheaper to map resistant bacteria
Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are a major problem for healthcare institutions around the world. Now there are still often opportunities to find a treatment that bites, but then we need to know which antibiotic resistance genes the bacterium carries. To...
🩺 E-tattoo keeps track of your blood pressure
High blood pressure increases the risk of, among other things, stroke, heart attack and kidney disease. Keeping track of your blood pressure is therefore important and an invention from the University of Texas Austin, and Texas A&M in the US, could make it much...
