Health Technology

Researchers have been looking into using a smartphone app and a paper funnel to help parents determine if their child has an ear infection. Unlike the unlimited amount of health-related apps already out there, this app would use the microphone and speaker on phones to detect fluid buildup in a…

IUDs are a form of birth control that is termed an LARC, or long-acting reversible contraceptive. It is small, t-shaped, contains hormones or copper wire, and is inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy for years. Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute have noticed a significant decrease…

Rachael Rettner — Live Science Bubble boy disease, a severe immune disorder in infants, appears to be cured due to new gene therapy. This disease causes newly born babies to have little to no immune system, which can be life-threatening. As if now, eight infants with bubble boy disease seemed to…

--CNN Previously, scientists have only been able to 3D print simple tissue without any blood vessels. Using a technique that involves a biopsy of the fatty tissue surrounding abdominal organs and reprogramming the cells to become stem cells, scientists were able to engineer a heart replete with…

--NPR Scientist have discovered long ago that modifying plant genes could alter certain traits in order to prevent diseases or increase yield. Modifying plant cells prove to be more difficult due to the cell wall, so researchers from UC Berkeley created a method using carbon nano-tubes. For the…

The WHO has credited insecticide-treated bed nets with preventing an estimated 1.3 billion cases of malaria and 6.8 million deaths from the disease since 2000. There are concerns, however, that mosquitoes are developing resistance against the insecticide. As a result, researchers are looking into…

A team of researchers from MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has developed an effective way to deliver insulin by swallowing a pill. The insulin is still injected with a needle, but it is so small it can be swallowed, and the injection…

-- CNN There has been a 1.3 million increase in teen tobacco users since 2017, and public health experts are blaming the teen vaping epidemic. This increase is so large that it nullifies any recent declines in youth tobacco use. Among all tobacco products, e-cigarettes, or vapes, were the ones…

With highly infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, those infected must be monitored to ensure they take their prescriptions daily without missing a dose. It can be very difficult to monitor patients when they are not home for extended periods of time and health worker’s must make long commutes…

With the growing science of AI, how will its use in the medical field interact with the role of physicians? It has been reported that Babylon’s AI may be able to assess and diagnose patients as well as a human physician can. Others, such as Helen Stokes-Lampard, believe that no machine will every be…