Willibald Panzer (61) is passionate about sport. In 2010 he injured his left shoulder while playing beach volleyball. When the pain became unbearable, Willibald decided to have an artificial shoulder fitted. ...
Editorial Team
19th June 2017
“I think Sickle Cell is misunderstood because it's not a visible condition and it affects everyone differently,” says Chantelle Pierre, who was diagnosed with the genetic blood disorder at six months old as part of a routine blood test. “People ...
16th June 2017
MedTech’s next generation of innovators want to reduce ‘false positives’ in cancer diagnostics Imagine you’ve been tested for cancer. The results come back – it’s bad news: the test is positive and you’re given a follow-up appointment ...
6th June 2017
Talk about mobile health! Doctors and medical students have put Romania’s healthcare divide in the spotlight Every month, one of Romania’s many rural villages welcomes up to 40 young doctors and students on a mission: to deliver health services ...
22nd May 2017
21 years ago, Max became the first child in the world to have two cochlear implants. Now he's a rugby-playing college student living a full and busy life When Max Roeder was born, the chances of him speaking his native German – ...
2nd January 2017
A few years ago, 12-year-old Campbell Remess came up with a brilliant way to help sick kids in hospital. At the time, Campbell, or “Bumble” as most people call him, asked his mum Sonya if he could buy toys for ...
2nd January 2017
These simple tricks can improve patients’ ability to understand health information Roughly one in two people in Europe have health literacy problems, according to a study of eight European countries. As outlined in an earlier post, this is an important ...
8th December 2016
That’s what many of us have grown up to believe. But for billions of patients in low-resource countries, safe surgery is an unaffordable luxury. International charity Lifebox is working to change this. It helps hospitals in poorer countries with ...
20th June 2017
Nicolas Lewandrowski (17) is a student in year 11 at a vocational training college. He was born with a heart defect and has had open heart surgery three times already. In 2013 he had a cardiac arrest when playing football and had to ...
From pregnancy tests and artificial retinas to prosthetic legs and bionic exoskeletons, we cover the stories behind the medical technologies that changes and saves lives and the people whose lives will never be the same because of it them. We’re sponsored by MedTech Europe, the European trade association representing the medical technology industries, from diagnosis to cure. However we’re not here to sell products or brands or give health advice. Instead, we’re here to talk about the tech that weaves itself into our lives at the moments we’d least expect—we’re here to answer the question “what is MedTech”
Our editorial team works with independent journalists from around the globe to cover the MedTech-centric stories other outlets tend to miss. We like to think of ourselves as one part tech blog, three parts family mag.