2017 is the year healthcare goes sci-fi
Digital technology can offer new and better ways to care for each other, provide healthcare for billions who have no access today, and give us the tools to democratize medical knowledge.
Your brain helps your body fight bacteria. Here's how
Recent studies look at the brain's response to bacteria and infection.
Women make better doctors, according to new research
New research suggests that women are better doctors than their male counterparts.
Light could transform the way we treat disease. Here's how
New research shows that light can activate a drug stored in circulating red blood cells.
How the internet is improving healthcare
Some of the ways that healthcare is turning to technology in an effort to improve our lives and health.
Misaligned Stakeholders and Health System Underperformance
Industry Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector
How to use mobile phones to prevent the spread of disease
Sveta Milusheva looks at the use of mobile data in preventing travellers spreading disease.
These two preventable illnesses are impacting the health of millions of children
Anita Zaidi suggests ways to tackle pneumonia and diarrhea to improve children's health.
Students living in nursing homes - a solution to our ageing populations?
From Dutch students living in nursing homes, to projects at the University of Exeter, students can have a lot to offer the elderly.
This implant can predict heart failure
Sensors could make it easier to predict a 'heart failure event' - up to a month in advance - according to new research.
A vision for the future of healthcare
Arnaud Bernaert looks at the future of healthcare, and making personalized and home-care a reality.
Junk food: convenient, but damaging to our children's brains?
Researchers suggest that excessive consumption of fatty foods could severely disrupt the development of maturing brains in young people.