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fizkes - Shutterstock From student loans, to medical bills, to simply putting food on the table, so much of managing your finances can feel like it comes down to getting by day-to-day. Retirement, meanwhile, feels like a distant dream. How can you even think about maxing out your 401(k) or Roth IRA when you can barely afford rent? However,…
If you take it for granted that nobody can listen in on your innermost thoughts, I regret to inform you that your brain may not be private much longer. You may have heard that Elon Musk’s company Neuralink surgically implanted a brain chip in its first human. Dubbed “Telepathy,” the chip uses neurotechnology in a medical context:
Balance disorders like vertigo can be devastating for patients—but they’re often invisible to the doctors who treat them. One morning last August, while making my bed, my entire visual field shifted sharply to the left, as though I were watching a movie and someone had bumped into the projector. After half a second, my vision snapped back into position. I froze, pillow in hand, and carefully looked around. The furniture in my room was still, apparently innocent of whatever had just happened.
Several years ago, I was invited to help judge the Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest pitch contest for student founders. These weren't ad hoc groups of kids cooking up the next Facebook in their dorms. Many of the teams were clearly organized by their universities, with MBA candidates assigned to marketing and operations roles and engineering or medical school students in technical positions.
fizkes (Shutterstock) From student loans, to medical bills, to simply putting food on the table, so much of managing your finances can feel like it comes down to getting by day-to-day. Retirement, meanwhile, feels like a distant dream.
A new medical device has been developed that promises to revolutionize the way peritoneoscopy is performed. OUI Medical has completed a cadaver study using its peritoneoscope, a portable handheld s…
Illustration by Klawe Rzeczy. The deaths of at least 190 people, including 30 children, from the invasive bacterial infection group A streptococcus, or strep A, are the most extreme consequences of…
We’ve become convinced that if we can eat more healthily, we will be morally better people. But where does this idea come from? Near the end of the hellish first year of the coronavirus pandemic, I…
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine may pose a higher risk of heart inflammation in some age groups than Pfizer-BioNTech’s shot, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesd…
Studies reveal that more than half of all practicing physicians demonstrate signs of burnout. Contemporary physicians face tremendous pressures due to a confluence of factors, including balancing h…
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Jorm Sangsorn/Getty Images Time heals all wounds, as the saying goes. But any medical professional can tell you that the hours required for recovery after an injury can vary widely. A person’s age, lifestyle and level of social support, for example, are all known influences on how quickly their body heals. Their thoughts can play…
Wall Street & IPOAbout an hour by rapid train northwest of Shanghai, China in the city of Changzhou (pop: 5.2 million) are the offices of Jin Medical International, a maker of “high-end” wheelchairs. Incorporated in the Cayman Islands in January 2020, Jin’s wheelchairs are known for being ergonomic and lightweight and recently the company began making electric and ski-friendly models.
New insights into the medical mysteries behind dementia have been revealed this week, with two studies identifying drivers of the brain-degenerating condition. One study, released on September 11 in the journal General Psychiatry, shows that the shortening of little caps on the end of chromosomes may be linked to increased dementia risk. Another, published in the journal JAMA on September 12, reveals that spending more time sedentary, such as sitting down, may also increase the risk. These studies may help scientists to further understand the mechanisms behind what causes dementia to develop, and therefore how to stop it.
The Economics of Aging and The Frailty Index Measuring health is important for many reasons. It can help doctors and scientists understand the risk of medical problems and develop prevention strategies that can improve patient care.
Vartika Sharma Balance disorders like vertigo can be devastating for patients—but they’re often invisible to the doctors who treat them. One morning last August, while making my bed, my entire visu…
Nicolas Ortega for forbes Every week, Eli Gelfand, chief of general cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, wastes a lot of time on letters he doesn’t want to write — al…
The team at the Francis Crick Institute in London showed that rather than causing damage, air pollution was waking up old damaged cells. One of the world’s leading experts, Prof Charles Swant…
Americans who haven’t had covid-19 are now officially in the minority. A study published this week from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 58% of randomly selected b…
People who work out regularly and are aerobically fit tend to guzzle a surprising amount of alcohol, according to a new study, well timed for the holidays, of the interplay between fitness, exercis…
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