News — Health

By August, Felicity Giles knew it was time. Her happiness was long overdue. The 36-year-old trucker changed her name, adopted the middle name Saoirse—freedom in Gaelic—and started looking into transitioning medically. “It was an attempt to break from who I was and who I grew up as,” she told me on the drive to her trucking company’s office. At the start of 2021, she spent weeks calling Planned Parenthoods in Fort Worth, Texas, where she and her spouse live. But the pandemic meant waitlists were backlogged for months, forcing Felicity to wait at least until March for a consultation and...

s. Veronika Charvátová MSc on the tiny seed that offers more health benefits than you might think The flax plant has been cultivated for millennia – as far back as 30,000 years according to the records! People have grown flax for its seeds and fibres all over Europe, Asia and North Africa before introducing it to North America. The flax fibre is spun into linen, a natural and sustainable fabric, while the seeds have multiple culinary uses and are pressed for oil extraction. Flaxseed (also called linseed) oil is edible and nutritious but has also been extensively used in wood...

Mass manufacturing may be the future of 3D printing (one hopes), but health products are very much its present. From orthodontics to prosthesis, medical needs are right in the sweet spot for additive manufacturing. Prototyping is a category with a specific ceiling, while true mass manufacturing is still at an impossible scale for most of these systems. Medical and dental present a larger market that still requires a good deal of customization. Today, Desktop Metal announced that it launched Desktop Health, a line specifically devoted to healthcare-adjacent products. The line encompasses a number of different technologies, including binder jetting, bioprinting...

It’s important to keep track of your medical history, including symptoms, prescription drugs, treatments, and so on. Keeping your health information together in an organized fashion makes things much easier if you have to apply for any type of disability income or other related services, or if you have to see a new healthcare provider, whether it be a specialist, emergency room staff, or other professional. It also allows you to monitor whether your condition is getting better or worse, and at what rate, as it’s not always easy to remember how long you’ve been experiencing a certain symptom or...

It’s important to keep track of your medical history, including symptoms, prescription drugs, treatments, and so on. Keeping your health information together in an organized fashion makes things much easier if you have to apply for any type of disability income or other related services, or if you have to see a new healthcare provider, whether it be a specialist, emergency room staff, or other professional. It also allows you to monitor whether your condition is getting better or worse, and at what rate, as it’s not always easy to remember how long you’ve been experiencing a certain symptom or...