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Family in Nigeria Lost 3 Daughters to Sickle Cell. Can They Save a Fourth?
About 150,000 babies are born each year in Nigeria with sickle cell, a deadly disease. Tens of thousands of them die annually before their fifth birthdays.
Source: NYT Health - December 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Eligon, Ismail Alfa and KC Nwakalor Tags: Sickle Cell Anemia Tests (Medical) Stroke Blood Genetics and Heredity National Institutes of Health DeBaun, Michael R Africa Nigeria Kano (Nigeria) The Lancet Deaths (Fatalities) Children and Childhood Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Source Type: news

12 Innovations That Will Change Health Care and Medicine in the 2020s
Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). Virtual reality that speeds healing in rehab. Artificial intelligence that’s better than medical experts at spotting lung tumors. These are just some of the innovations now transforming medicine at a remarkable pace. No one can predict the future, but it can at least be glimpsed in the dozen inventions and concepts below. Like the people behind them, they stand at the vanguard of health care. Neither exhaustive nor exclusive, the list is, rather, representative of the recasting of public health and medic...
Source: TIME: Health - October 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized HealthSummit19 technology Source Type: news