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From reacting to anticipating: Takeaways for Africa from Abu Dhabi's Future Health Summit

At the Future Health Summit in Abu Dhabi, speaker after speaker underlined the importance of anticipatory systems that identify health risk factors long before symptoms appear.

  • Abu Dhabi summit gathered 16,000 global health experts over three days
  • Focus on moving from reactive care to proactive wellness using data and AI
  • African nations face dual burden of infectious diseases and chronic illnesses

Health & Medicine

Exercise in a pill

We all know exercise is good for us. It builds muscle, strengthens bones, lowers blood pressure, and boosts mood. By deciphering how movement benefits the body, researchers hope to develop medicines that can offer some of the same perks—without the workout. The idea isn’t to replace exercise but to bring its upsides to people who…

Tech

Eliminating traffic deaths

Every year, traffic crashes kill more than one million people, and they’re the leading cause of death for children and young adults. In the US, 100 people a day lose their lives this way, in many cases not on highways but on rural and local streets. “Traffic deaths are a leading cause of preventable death,…

Tech

Solid-state batteries

The rise of the lithium-ion battery, which powers everything from the smallest personal electronics to gargantuan energy storage systems, has been nothing short of revolutionary.

Tech

Cleaning up PFAS

Scrubbing Earth of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—a.k.a. PFAS or forever chemicals—could eliminate a list of woes for people and planet.

Health & Medicine

Nigeria: Ebola Confirmed in Abuja As Nigeria Tracks 44 Potential Contacts

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nigerian health authorities are tracing 44 people who may have been exposed to Ebola after a woman who recently travelled to the country from Uganda tested positive for the…

  • Woman from Uganda diagnosed with Ebola in Nigeria on October 20
  • Federal Ministry of Health and CDC tracking 44 potential contacts
  • Healthcare urged to remain vigilant for suspected Ebola cases
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