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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

The potential health and economic impact of plant-based food patterns in Belgium and the United Kingdom
• Plant-based food patterns, such as a soy-containing diet and the Mediterranean diet, reduce the risk on non-communicable diseases such as T2DM, CHD, stroke and certain cancers.• If 10% of the total population would commit to a high adherence of the Mediterranean diet, societal cost savings of €1.30 billion in Belgium and £5.21 billion in the UK are estimated over a time horizon of 20 years.• If 10% of the total population would commit to a high adherence of a soy-containing diet, societal cost savings of €1.53 billion in Belgium and £7.54 billion in the UK are estimated over a ti me horizon of 20 years.
Source: Nutrition - December 15, 2017 Category: Nutrition Authors: Janne Schepers, Lieven Annemans Source Type: research