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One of the most important paradigm shifts that led to today’s healthcare and medicine, is prevention. Not simply preventing the disease from happening, but also preventing further deterioration in those who have it. This helps everyone: improves patient’s quality of life, occupies less beds, and reallocates resources where they are needed. This is why I…
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When we talk about disease (breakthroughs in diagnostics and understanding) or treatment (latest innovations changing the scene), we tend to forget something very basic but very important. In the quiet background, muscle is wasting away because illness blunts appetite, clinic days run long, and “eat what you can” recommendation turns into not much at all.…
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I used to think of pre-op wait as a waiting time. A time of patience and pondering, mixed with stress and worry. Then I met prehabilitation (prehab): as few as 2–4 weeks of simple exercise + protein intake that quietly raises the patient’s baseline before surgery. In short and simple words prehab is: Short, structured…
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The modern landscape of healthcare is buzzing with flashy ideas and words. Everyone is awaiting the fully AI-run healthcare facility with the big screens and floating dashboards. But I wonder if this thinking is as actionable as the imagination of someone that looked at the first car. The one that thought “what if cars can…
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(Cover: An early, unpublished 1956 drawing by Francis Crick illustrating the central dogma. Wellcome Library, London.) The story of mRNA vaccines is a decades-long tale of scientific curiosity and perseverance, sprinkled with a few lucky breakthroughs along the way. It began in the 1970s and ’80s, when researchers first dreamed of using the body’s own…