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🧠 Outsmart Alzheimer’s - and Other Breakthroughs for Living Healthier

New study shows how brain training, diet, and movement change your future

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This Week’s Pulse: From heart failure detection to preventing falls and easing cognitive decline, this edition of the HealthHack Newsletter puts the spotlight on technologies making healthy living more possible than ever.

Whether you're managing a chronic condition, supporting a loved one, or just looking to stay ahead of the curve, this issue offers actionable insights and tools designed to meet you where you are - and help you live on your own terms.

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EDITOR’S CHOICE ✨ 

“Glucose is only the beginning” - The Future Under Your Skin

Sava Technologies is developing a needle-free, multi-molecule biosensor that can continuously track glucose and other biomarkers just beneath the skin. Their first device offers a painless CGM experience - delivering real-time insights to your phone for days on end, far outlasting traditional sensors.

For the 99% of people with diabetes who don’t use CGMs, this could be the first truly accessible option. And glucose is just the beginning.

Chronic Care, Reimagined

A Pump With a Purpose

For people living with liver disease and debilitating ascites, Sequana Medical’s alfapump is turning a painful, outdated treatment into something far more humane. This implantable device reportedly moves excess fluid into the bladder for natural elimination, eliminating the need for invasive needle drains and dramatically improving quality of life. Already FDA-approved, the alfapump may soon become standard for thousands managing fluid overload.

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Elder Care Meet Smarter Care

AssistMe’s IoT platform, alea, brings AI-powered alerts to nursing care, helping caregivers know exactly when to intervene - whether it’s time to change an incontinence product or prevent a dangerous fall. This system improves sleep, reduces skin irritation, and saves 23% in material costs, all while lightening the load on overstretched nursing staff.

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Prevention & Precision

Harnessing Your Immune First Responders Against Cancer

LIfT BioSciences is using genetically engineered neutrophils - your body’s frontline defenders - to fight solid tumors that resist conventional treatment. These Immuno-Modulatory Alpha Neutrophils (IMANs) are being prepped for first-in-human trials and could pave the way for durable, non-antigen-specific cancer immunity.

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AI in Action

Detect Heart Failure Earlier

Heart failure often hides in plain sight -especially in forms like HFpEF and cardiac amyloidosis that evade standard diagnostics. Ultromics’ EchoGo platform uses AI to analyse routine echocardiograms and detect disease signals early and accurately, without changing clinical workflows. It's already FDA-cleared, Medicare-reimbursed, and reportedly outperforming human risk scores in global studies

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Your Mental Health Coworker

Unmind’s AI mental health agent, Nova, is bringing discreet, on-demand support to the workplace. Combining clinical-grade AI with live therapist escalation, Nova offers stigma-free, real-time assistance that’s already showing 92% usage growth and strong retention. For anyone who's felt isolated at work, it could be the beginning of a future where help is just a message away.

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VISIONARY VOICES đź’¬ 

Why Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable

A new study, presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference and published in JAMA, argues that cognitive decline is not inevitable. The trial followed over 2,000 older adults at elevated risk of Alzheimer’s and showed that a structured lifestyle program - including BrainHQ brain training, guided exercise, and nutritional coaching - led to significant improvements in global cognition over two years.

Participants in the structured group saw cognitive gains that moved them up from the 50th percentile to nearly the 70th.

Experimental Frontiers

Fungi, Yeast, and the Future of Mental Health

Psylink is reimagining treatment-resistant depression and PTSD by tapping into the natural world - without sacrificing scientific rigor. The startup is developing fungi-inspired mental health compounds using engineered yeast cells, effectively turning them into "mini bio-factories." The goal: scalable, sustainable production of therapeutic agents like psilocybin analogs that could reach patients conventional drugs fail to help.

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Antibiotic + Immunotherapy = A New Line of Defense

Centauri Therapeutics is blurring the lines between antibiotics and immunotherapies. Its lead compound ABX-01 takes on multidrug-resistant lung infections using a two-pronged approach: it kills harmful bacteria directly and activates the body’s immune response at the same time. Built on Centauri’s proprietary Alphamer platform, this molecule is headed for first-in-human trials.

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Well that’s it! đźš€ 

From fall prevention to early heart failure detection and new options for Alzheimer’s, this week’s edition is all about staying ahead of the health curve as we age.

Technology is catching up with the realities of health - and it’s offering tools built for all types of bodies and real-world needs.

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Your HealthHack Team