{"id":85314,"date":"2018-11-30T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-most-amazing-health-innovations-of-2018"},"modified":"2018-11-30T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:02:24","slug":"the-most-amazing-health-innovations-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-most-amazing-health-innovations-of-2018","title":{"rendered":"The most amazing health innovations of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-amazing-health-innovations-of-2018.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Countless new products and medications hit stores\u2019 shelves and doctors\u2019 prescription pads every year. Many are a result of small tweaks to already available treatments. A select few, though, totally change the game: A preventative migraine drug slashes monthly headaches in half, an injectable gene restores sight to those with a degenerative eye condition, and a better-designed sunscreen helps more people keep damaging rays at bay. These 10 medical advances represent how science, technology, and creative thinking can help us live longer, better lives.<\/p>\n<p>Aimovig by Amgen &amp; Novartis<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"Aimovig by Amgen &amp; Novartis\" typeof=\"foaf: Image\" data-50src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/50_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=J_6m92tJ&fc=50,50\" data-75src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/75_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=K-7czHTt&fc=50,50\" data-100src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/100_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=4HUM1H-U&fc=50,50\" data-150src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/150_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=Cl4bp1fF&fc=50,50\" data-200src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/200_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=ckW14Y7X&fc=50,50\" data-250src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/250_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=QAgv-OFD&fc=50,50\" data-325src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-amazing-health-innovations-of-20182.jpg\" data-380src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/380_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=T0tmNC3I&fc=50,50\" data-500src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/500_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=UDwZmlQd&fc=50,50\" data-655src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/655_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=VkgqqMZy&fc=50,50\" data-800src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/800_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=8sEWOlMT&fc=50,50\" data-1000src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/1000_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=55fqZiLC&fc=50,50\" data-2000src=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/sites\/popsci.com\/files\/styles\/2000_1x_\/public\/images\/2018\/11\/aimovig.jpg?itok=XmqfZpJL&fc=50,50\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-amazing-health-innovations-of-20182.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/best-health-innovations-2018?src=SOC&dom=fb\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/best-health-innovations-2018?src=SOC&dom=fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countless new products and medications hit stores\u2019 shelves and doctors\u2019 prescription pads every year. Many are a result of small tweaks to already available treatments. A select few, though, totally change the game: A preventative migraine drug slashes monthly headaches in half, an injectable gene restores sight to those with a degenerative eye condition, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}