From the magazine
A heart scan saved my life
A nurse with no risk factors and a clean set of cardiovascular tests. What saved Christel Put's life was a scan and a radiologist who refused to stop at almost.
Look closer, not wider
Prof. Rodrigo Salgado reads the scans that reveal Europe's biggest killer, and his prescription is to use them correctly. The tools to catch heart disease early already sit in the continent's hospitals, he argues; what is missing is to get them to the patients who need them.
Europe must protect young minds
Social media platforms are not neutral spaces. Meta, TikTok, YouTube and other technology giants design products to capture and retain our attention. Their algorithms learn what keeps us watching and offer us more of it. For children and adolescents, the consequences can be devastating.
Can prevention pay?
Europe’s medicine keeps getting better, yet Europeans keep getting sicker, spending more of their lengthening lives unwell. Health futurist Bogi Eliasen says the fix is a mindset, not a budget, and sketches what a system built around prevention would look like.