Growing Obesity Rates Are Becoming A Worldwide Epidemic According to the World Health Organisation, since 1975 worldwide obesity has tripled. For both the developed and developing countries, this has presented a huge public health scourge. Today, 2.1 billon people are overweight, which counts for 30% of the world’s population. Obesity is becoming a [...]
A Pill On A String Can Detect Early Oesophageal Cancer According to Cancer Research UK, 9,211 people in Europe are diagnosed with oesophageal cancer annually with a 12% survival rate. Although, 59% of those cases are preventable, oesophageal cancer is very hard to detect, and screening methods are quite invasive. Researchers from the [...]
Paralysed Man Is Able To Walk Again Because of Spinal Implant A Man who was left paralysed following a tragic snowmobile accident, is now able to stand and walk for the first time in 5 years. With assistance, he was able to take his first steps because of a new therapy that reactivates [...]
Millennial Impact On The Workplace The traditional ways of working will soon be a thing of the past because of the new generation. Today millennials are representing a large share of the workforce. No longer are they recognised as the leaders of tomorrow but more so the leaders of today. To attract and [...]
Artificial Ovary To Help Women Conceive After Chemotherapy Cancer is one of the world’s biggest killers with 6 million women diagnosed with it every year. After effective treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, many women are at risk of being left infertile. Scientists from the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark are working to create an artificial [...]
An Enzyme Found In Gut Bacteria Could Form A Universal Blood Type Scientists from the University of British Colombia have found an enzyme in the digestive tract that could create a possible “universal” blood type. Type O blood is considered the “universal” blood type allowing to mix with others for transfusions. This makes [...]
How Technology Is Changing Healthcare Technology has impacted many lives and industries as we see it, including the healthcare industry. While it hasn’t cured everything yet, technological advances have seen improvements on the quality of life and has saved many lives. With all the digital developments, it’s fair to say that they have [...]
A Tiny Robot Spider Might Soon Perform Micro-Surgery The future in micro surgery might be a tiny robot spider. Harvard and Boston university researchers have created a robot spider inspired by the micro Australian peacock spider. It has micrometre-scale features and it is less than an inch long. Researchers hope that it can [...]
Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Future In Recruitment Artificial Intelligence might be taking over the employment process worldwide making it a hiring utopia. Which would mean that finding better qualified candidates will be easier and time will be reduced for recruiters. As mentioned in our previous article, since a big part of the [...]
International Breast Cancer Awareness Month Today marks the beginning of International Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One of the scariest diagnostics for women is breast cancer, as it counted for 571,000 deaths worldwide in 2015, according to the World Health Organization. Being one of the biggest killers for both women and men early detection [...]
