Cervical Cancer Prevention Today marks the beginning of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. This year’s theme “reduce your risk” aims to promote the importance of regular cervical screening or ‘smear’ tests among women between the ages of 25-60 years old. According to the World Health Organisation, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer [...]
Social Media's Healthcare Revolution Thanks to social media the world is more connected than ever. From Twitter to Facebook and LinkedIn, it has not excluded the healthcare industry. Nowadays people are engaging with healthcare professionals, discussing health issues and sharing experiences online. This has offered healthcare practitioners and organisations many benefits from managing [...]
Anaemia Detection App A team of engineers from the University of Washington have created a new detection app called the HemaApp to detect signs of anaemia using the camera flash on your phone. This form of artificial intelligence could allow patients to diagnose and monitor the blood disorder at home. Anaemia is a [...]
How The Diet Impacts Workflow In order to have a healthy lifestyle it is imperative to have healthy eating habits. However, many people link healthy nutrition to weight loss or health in general. Only very few will associate healthy eating habits with productivity at work. Diet has more of a direct impact on [...]
Diagnosis From The Sound Of A Patient's Voice Researchers from a US start-up, Canary Speech, are working to develop technology to predict and diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder, Parkinson’s disease, concussions or even heart diseases from the sound of a patient’s voice. There is a growing amount of evidence suggesting that many physical and [...]
Company Creates 3D Printed Prosthetics for Underprivileged Kids “Unlimited Tomorrow” is working alongside Stratasys, a 3D printing company and Dassault Systems, a software design company to make 3D printed prosthetics. The custom-design and affordable prosthetics are made to be accessible for children from remote and underprivileged communities. Over 30 million people globally, need prosthetic [...]
Behavioural Design is Changing the Role And Impact of Healthcare Healthcare systems are finding new effective ways to get people to adopt a healthier lifestyle in order to address the rising cost of chronic conditions. To improve the chances of success, a new person-centric approach to behaviour change is being taken thus, focusing [...]
Gender Differences in Autoimmunity Women are generally healthier and have a longer lifespan than men. However, 80% of people with autoimmune diseases are usually women of childbearing age and it is among the leading causes of disability and death. New data is now being presented for possible reasons behind gender differences in the [...]
New Dubai Office STRAMMER is proud to celebrate the opening of our new hub in the EMEA area, more precisely in Dubai. Opening a new office is a great experience and we are excited to grow our business and, moreover, establish our company in the Middle East. The EMEA area has a unique opportunity [...]
Scientists Discover a Way To Get Drugs To The Brain More Efficiently Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered a way to potentially deliver drugs to the brain more efficiently. Due to the difficulty of getting enough drugs into the brain effectively, many therapies for central nervous system diseases [...]
