Exactly How Many People Have Long Covid?
Before the pandemic, Lyth Hishmeh—a 26-year-old living in Camberley, England—was always looking for something to keep himself busy. He was working as a…
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This Device Could Tune Your Heart—Then Dissolve Away
The first medical implant to come of that breakthrough was a thin sheet that electrically jolts injured tissue to kick-start nerve regeneration, which the…
Covid Protections Kept Other Viruses at Bay. Now They’re Back
The US isn’t the only place to experience an out-of-season RSV surge. Australia, South Africa, Iceland, and various European countries did also. In France,…
The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything
Johns injects less than one-tenth of a teaspoon’s worth of the silk and hyaluronic acid mixture through a special catheter wired through his endoscope. He…
The Challenge of Covid-19 Vaccines for the Immunosuppressed
Plus, antibodies are not the only defense the body deploys to create immunity: We also make T cells, memory B cells, and others. The vaccine clinical trials…
What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There?
This new system, which continually monitors and collects patient data, has recently gone wireless. It is being tested on patients in a hospital in…
Inside Ritesh Agarwal’s year of change: how the pandemic became medicine for Oyo
Ritesh Agarwal, founder and CEO, Oyo Rooms; image courtesy by FacebookSynopsis‘Fix on the fly’: Oyo’s top executives would often use this line during its…
Oximeters Used to Be Designed for Equity. What Happened?
As steps toward mitigating racial bias, Hewlett-Packard’s engineers marshaled a range of more inclusive approaches to oximetry. The instrument’s baseline…