X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
The X-Health.show brings to you brilliant minds behind programming living cells, tech that detects pre-term delivery in seconds, brain-computer interface or apps that employ AI to match you, your disease with the best treatment. For the eXtra Health of the future. You’ll meet visionaries from Switzerland who push the boundaries of healthcare. Engineers who teamed up with doctors, scientists turned CEOs, doctors programming AI-powered apps, researchers who abandoned university labs to improve your health. You’ll hear stories of promising startups founders and successful serial entrepreneurs. Patients who imagine a better way. You’ll learn about new disease treatments understand how AI-driven health tech can improve your life grasp the way founders innovate or even, get inspired to jumpstart innovation at your company. Luckily, the X-Health.show is based in Switzerland, the most innovative country in the world according to World Intellectual Property Organization. For the 12th consecutive year. No wonder when the abundance of funds for innovation meets the ability to commercialize the discoveries. With notable research institutions situated nearby top pharmaceutical companies, there’s more to expect. More medical innovations, break-through femtech, life changing biotech, developments in digital health, genetic engineering, and wearables, such as smart ring, blood pressure measurement on your wrist or ECG in your pyjama. Follow the show to meet these amazing innovators.
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Currently: patients with breast cancer are adjusted to fit a table for radiotherapy. Soon: the table will be fitted to them. A personalized shell, 3D-printed for one specific patient, will be used for all radiation sessions. Less pain. More comfort. Shorter radiation sessions. In this episode, you will hear aboutthe be
People with spinal cord injury will be able to stand up and walk again with this exoskeleton after some training In this episode, you will hearwhy TWIICE followed a strict rule of not allowing able-bodied people to test the exoskeletonhow they accelerated the development of the exoskeletonhow people after spinal cord i
The goal is to have a breast cancer test at a point of care, say—at your family doctor’s office. And regularly. In this episode, you will hear aboutDNA origami and DNA as a building materialthe role of microRNAsand how a love for basketball led to becoming a DNA scientist My guest, Dr. Ivana Domljanovic, is a postdocto
No email, no name, not even a login is required when signing up. You just start using the app so you don’t forget to take your meds. Wait, what? In this episode, you’ll hear about:a free medication reminders appwhy people don’t adhere to therapieshow patients control what they share and even earn moneyand how pharmace
It is absolutely fascinating what impact such a simple, naturally occurring compound can have. An antioxidant that is 20-30 times more potent than vitamins C and E. And has the potential to protect brain longevity, including in cases of Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s disease, after stroke, depress
Off-the-Shelf “Human” Tissue for Reconstructing Urethra Narrowing: Dr. Eva-Maria Balet, Regenosca
It is not human tissue, i.e., it doesn’t come from a human but it is recognized by the body and well-tolerated. In effect, patients undergoing urethral stricture reconstruction have better recovery and less pain. In this episode, you will hear aboutregenerative medicineurethral stricture symptomsa scaffold that attract