Andrea is a fresh communications graduate, a previous freelance writer and blogger. Living in Brussels she's currently a communications intern, writer and editor at MedTech Europe.
18th March 2015
She’s extravagant, she’s sexy, she’s blunt. She’s challenging preconceptions and starking conversations. Viktoria Modesta is a true pop star. She was born in Latvia in the late ‘80s, but an accident left the nerves in her ...
12th March 2015
I don't think there’s anything more adorable than kids with glasses. It probably started when I saw Jerry Maguire... Photo: Jonathan Lipnicki I got my first pair of glasses when I was 7. And I was absolutely thrilled about it. ...
4th March 2015
What’s it like to be a 21st century teenage leg amputee? Take 30 seconds to watch these 4 quick vids. From mosquito bites to (the difficulty of) sneaking up on people to “stupid things people say”. It’s just everyday life, ...
12th February 2015
Joe Landolina looks like any typical 21-year old graduate: he’s young, inspirational, ambitious and wants to change the world. Except he’s already changed it. He’s been working on a life-saving technology since age 17 that could now become ...
5th February 2015
When news came out on clinical trials of a bionic hand that can feel, I decided to find out more. And while going through all the high-tech, robotic, and trans-human articles I turned the other way and took a peek ...
29th January 2015
A while back, exoskeletons seemed to exist only in blockbuster movies like Iron man or Elysium. Then, the first real exoskeleton, which helped the paralyzed stand up, walk or climb stairs, became reality. Even the kid who had the first ...
16th January 2015
It’s really not just a figure of speech when people say “the shock of birth”. Of course it’s shocking, and somehow babies need to cope with that trauma. This is, for a big chunk aided by the physical ...
8th January 2015
One of the ways medicine is reinventing itself is by making diagnostic techniques less… scary. The mention of a colonoscopy, a biopsy, or even a blood test can be quite unnerving. And not just because we fear ‘why’ the doctor ...
Your baby is up at 3am, crying. You try the usual routine, nothing works. Aftwr that never-ending night your day starts off with a rush to the nearest Children’s Hospital. It could be a swallowed lego piece, an ear ...
8th January 2015
It seems we just can’t get enough of wearables. But while on one hand developers are working on making them more discreet or even fashionable (ear buds, anklets, wristbands) there seems to be a group who decide to take ...
