European startup Natural Cycles is pushing to establish its EU-certified “digital contraceptive app” as a globally accepted contraception option — and compete with tried and tested options used by millions of couples worldwide. Read More
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Incredible treatment heals a young boy’s lethal skin disease with stem cells
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The complications of the little boy’s genetic skin disease grew as he did. Tiny blisters had covered his back as a newborn. Then came the chronic skin wounds that extended from his buttocks down to his legs.
By June 2015, at age 7, the boy had lost nearly two-thirds of his skin due to an infection related to the genetic disorder junctional epidermolysis bullosa, which causes the skin to become extremely fragile. There’s no cure for the disease, and it is often fatal for kids. At the burn unit at Children’s Hospital in Bochum, Germany, doctors offered him constant morphine and bandaged much of his body, but nothing — not even his father’s offer to donate his skin — worked to heal his wounds. Read more…
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Although yoga has been around for thousands of years, it has become increasingly popular in modern culture. As a form of exercise, yoga is a great way to get your body moving, but the practice also provides plenty of mental and physical benefits.
Speaking with yoga enthusiast Angie Yeo, Mashable discovered how yoga can enhance our everyday life. Yeo started doing yoga during her first year of university, when she was looking for a way to cope with her stressful days and long hours in school. She started yoga after getting a deal on a class and, as she says, “the rest was history!”
While yoga has helped Yeo manage her stress, it has also helped her manage her struggle with astigmatism—an imperfection in the curvature of your eye that causes objects to appear blurry or distorted. As someone whose eyesight troubles can cause headaches and make it difficult to concentrate, Yeo benefits from yoga’s ability to help sharpen her focus. Read more…
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View More 4 reasons why you should start your day with yogaThe government is handing out 10,000 Fitbits to research precision medicine
In his 2015 State of the Union, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative — a massive research project designed to gain more insight into how we live with and treat various diseases. Last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) changed the initiative’s name to the warmer, fuzzier, All of Us, and opened enrollment in hopes of achieving its goal of gaining… Read More
There’s a parasite that actually makes some men like the smell of cat urine
We spoke to a doctor who specializes in parasites about a specific kind of parasite that may be connected to a behavioral change in men if they become infected. Read more…More about Science, Health, Animals, Cats, and Mashable Video
View More There’s a parasite that actually makes some men like the smell of cat urineEvolve Foundation launches a $100 million fund to find startups working to relieve human suffering
It seems there’s nothing but bad news out there lately, but here’s some good news — the nonprofit Evolve Foundation has raised $100 million for a new fund called the Conscious Accelerator to combat loneliness, purposelessness, fear and anger spreading throughout the world though technology. Read More
New technology puts the AI in aid for US veterans
As part of their latest endeavor to improve care for our country’s combat vets, the Department of Veterans Affairs has invested in a rapidly advancing form of intelligence: the artificial kind. The opportunity to use this growing tech to improve veteran healthcare has rightfully attracted positive attention to some intriguing new initiatives. Read More
Silicon Valley is obsessed with fasting. Experts call it ‘highly irresponsible.’
Silicon Valley has long been obsessed with optimizing people’s lives.
From voice-activated assistants to devices that micromanage physical activity down to the last step to remote-controlled home temperature systems, Silicon Valley just won’t r…
Silicon Valley is obsessed with fasting. Experts call it ‘highly irresponsible.’
Silicon Valley has long been obsessed with optimizing people’s lives.
From voice-activated assistants to devices that micromanage physical activity down to the last step to remote-controlled home temperature systems, Silicon Valley just won’t r…
Revolutionary ultrasound smartphone gadget helped a doctor diagnose his own cancer
Butterfly Network Inc., a medical technology company that aims to revolutionize current ultrasound systems, just announced that it got clearance from the FDA to put the ‘Butterfly iQ’ ultrasound smartphone gadget on the US market.
The portable and po…
Want to know what your vagina’s rights are? This site can help.
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Having a vagina doesn’t feel like it comes with great perks these days, but there are still a few benefits available to those of us who have them, believe it or not.
Thankfully there’s a new website to help us navigate what exactly theses benefits are. The helpfully named VaginaBenefits.com is put together by TIA, an app that provides women’s health advice, and is meant to help people who are trying to navigate our current insurance landscape.
So what exactly are these benefits? They’re women’s health services that the Affordable Care Act mandated be 100 percent covered by insurance. They include birth control without a copay, UTI and STI tests, pap smears, breast cancer screenings, and wellness exams. Read more…
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View More Want to know what your vagina’s rights are? This site can help.This legally blind man finally sees his wedding, 15 years later
Andrew Airey lives with Stargardt’s disease, which has deteriorated his eyesight over the past 20 years’eSight’ smart glasses has given Airey the chance to have almost perfect vision. He and his wife recreated their wedding, 15 years later, so that Ai…
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