Healthcare

An ear sensor successfully alerted doctors to signs that COVID-19 patients isolating at home were getting worse and should be hospitalized.

Breast cancer cells appear brightly colored when placed on new smart microscope slides, which could help doctors diagnose patients earlier.

A human challenge trial suggests that wearable health monitors could help predict flu and cold infections before symptoms appear.

A new blood test kit that’s fast, portable, and accurate could help bring better healthcare to people in remote and underdeveloped areas.

Your circadian clock controls more than when you sleep and wake. Researchers are developing a simple blood test to try and accurately tell your time.

Now there’s a mathematical model that could maximize the effectiveness of exercise.

Drone ambulances deliver defibrillators to suspected cardiac arrest victims more quickly than traditional ambulances in a Swedish study.

Researchers have developed a brain-wide gene editing technique that treated Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

For the first time, researchers have created mice from egg cells and ovaries grown from stem cells.

The next new surgical tool may come from an odd place: parasitic wasps whose eggs eat their hosts inside-out.