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1 Japanese researchers have created a stretchy and ultrathin electric “skin”. Combined with a wireless communication module, this integrated biomedical sensor system can transmit data to the cloud or other external storage devices such as a smartphone.
This new electronics system aims to enhance information accessibility for elderly or infirm people. The non-invasive health monitoring tool promises to help ease the obtention of data which today is still a difficult operation because of the existing devices.
2 A heartbreak or the loss of a loved one can literally break the heart: Tako-Tsubo’s cardiomyopathy, a little known pathology, causes the symptoms of an heart attack but remains benign for the vast majority of cases. Adrenaline is released after an intense emotion with the effect of contracting the blood vessels and accelerate the heart.
Until paralyzing sometimes. The mortality rate is 3.7%, which is close to that of a heart attack (5.3%). As for the patients who recover, specialists believe that they should be followed as regularly as patients who suffer from heart failure.
Diagnosed for the first time in the 1990s, a new study conducted on 1,750 patients made it possible to know a little more the disease’s mechanisms.
3 An American transgender woman was able to breastfeed her adopted child through the use of hormones to raise milk, according to a study published in Transgender Health. For this, she received treatment three and a half months before delivery. The baby is in perfect health and is fed both with breast milk and formula milk.
“The patient was able to breastfeed exclusively for six weeks”, and then started to supplement with formula, because of “concerns about a lack of milk volume”.
This case illustrates that, in some circumstances, modest but functional lactation may be possible for transgender women, according to researchers.
