💡 HealthTech Update: From Eating Disorders to Life-Saving AI Innovations

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Here comes your latest dose of fresh healthtech news and insights. Buckle up - this is about to get interesting!

🍔 Dealing with eating disorders: London-based Univa Health just raised €1.2 million for its digital platform addressing eating disorder care. Univa’s personalised digital care platform set out to transform how healthcare systems manage and treat eating disorders while improving the lives of those affected and their loved ones.

🥇 Healthiest vegetable in the world: According to the CDC’s nutrition density scale of 2023 and 2024, a small superfood called watercress is the healthiest vegetable in the world! Are you eating it regularly?

💫 Diet and lifestyle factors play an important role in breast cancer prevention. Aside from a genetic component in some people, breast cancer is highly influenced by diet and lifestyle factors. Maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, following a healthy, balanced diet, and limiting exposure to environmental toxins are proven ways to reduce breast cancer risk.

🔓 If ChatGPT were cut loose in the Emergency Department, it might suggest unneeded x-rays and antibiotics for some patients and admit others who didn’t require hospital treatment? A new study from UC San Francisco has discovered this. The researchers said that, while the model could be prompted in ways that make its responses more accurate, it’s still no match for the clinical judgment of a human doctor.

🌠 Every year, more than 600,000 women worldwide are diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 340,000 die, with 90% of these women living in low-resource countries. However, did you know that more self-collection of health data and better access to screening tools could prevent thousands of ‘needless’ deaths from cervical cancer?

📒 Intermittent fasting protocols are gaining interest among researchers and health enthusiasts for their potential benefits. Researchers found that eating within an 8–10-hour window may help improve blood sugar control in people with the condition. Although the study has some limitations, its findings align with previous, similar research

💡 A cognitive behavioural therapy app has been found to significantly prevent increases in depression in young people who are at high risk – and could be implemented as an affordable public mental health measure. The trials found the CBT app prevented an increase in depression relative to self-monitoring in the higher-risk sample. 

🪐 AI healthtech startup CellChorus just raised funding to speed up cell-based immunotherapy in cancer treatment. The specialized tool enables the studying of single cells over time. Using a video-array-based technology, it observes cell interactions and produces tens of thousands of videos.

That’s it for your healthtech fix this week. Until next time. Stay healthy, happy and tech-savvy!

Your HealthHack Team!