Health Tech Hub Vol. 16— Your Weekly Reads in Medicine and Health Tech
- The Neuroscience of Pain — A fantastic article on the latest findings in pain research, brought to you in New Yorker-style prose. Includes excellent commentary on the state of bioethics for pain control, the opioid pain crisis, and future directions of pain research.
2. Targeting Dormant Cancer Cells — For a long time, there has been a focus on therapeutic treatments targeting rapidly proliferating cancer cells. But what about those dormant seed tumor cells that lead to metastasis? With the trillions of cells in the body, it can hard to identify such cells. But researchers are now attempting to hone in on these silent killers.
3. Modern Health offers company mental health services — With the stakes so high in many new and growing companies, the work environment can be an emotionally draining pressure-cooker. Y-Combinator alum Modern Health is looking to make mental health services a norm to be included in all companies’ employee benefits.
Bonus Podcast: “Dying for a Paycheck” — Is overworking the new cigarette smoke? Competition for work is stiff, and leaders of some of the world’s most infamous companies continue to ramp up work demands. But when does too much work lead to a national health problem?
Listen to Jason Calacanis interview Jeffrey Pfeffer (Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business) on this potential work crisis.
Curated by Genesis Dayrit
