Top 10 Most Popular #Digitalhealth Stories of 2016 - The Medical Futurist

Here are the stories of 2016 about the future of medicine and healthcare you liked the most so far. At Vanderbilt University, scientists are building an artificial kidney that they envision will one day will be a standard of care over dialysis. The end result is expected to be a microchip about the size of a natural kidney, small enough to be implantable and powered by the body's own blood flow. A Dutch clinic had their first paralyzed patient walk home in an exoskeleton. The heart-warming event followed an 8 weeks-long training program designed by the clinic, during which the patient has trained with the ReWalk 6.0 exoskeleton to regain their movement. A groundbreaking new therapy in which white blood cells were reprogrammed to attack cancer cells is showing great promise after more than 90 percent of terminally ill leukemia patients had their symptoms disappear completely.