Transgender men and non-binary people have a safer, more comfortable option for chest binding in the form of Breathe, a smart garment designed by Loughborough University student Miles Kilburn. More
Benedetta Tagliabue – principal of EMBT – has completed a Maggie's Centre for cancer care at an art nouveau-hospital in Barcelona, with interiors designed by Patricia Urquiola. More
London studio Dow Jones Architects has completed a temporary Maggie's Centre for cancer care in Cardiff with a series of angular roofs clad entirely in weathering steel. More
Contraceptives and other drugs could be administered through an earring, using a method invented by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. More
Italian architect Renzo Piano is building a major new health facility, the Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Surgery, in Uganda. More
Personal fertility tracking is set to get more sophisticated with the arrival of Kegg, the first wearable device to measure cervical mucus. More
White Arkitekter has created a concept for a new mother and baby health unit at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More
White-wash walls and greenery are intended to create a relaxing atmosphere at this doctor's office and clinic in New York, designed by Alda Ly Architecture for a startup company that takes an alternative approach to healthcare. More
Bright colours and simple geometric forms feature in this children's outpatient clinic in Kyiv by local practice Ater Architects. More
Two matching elevated cabins have been nestled into a woodland by Snøhetta, to improve the treatment of patients at two of Norway's largest hospitals by immersing them in nature. More
A smart ring developed by New York-based designer Hussain Almossawi allows people with sickle cell disease to monitor and detect low oxygen levels in their blood. More
These 3D-printed hearing aids could help people who are partially deaf to tune out unwanted background noise, but they also function as regular earphones.
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A glazed box revealing floors wrapped in a terracotta screen forms part of this new academic facility, designed by CO Architects for a university in Kansas City. More
London-based design studio Cellule has devised a system for creating personalised digital and 3D-printed models of hearts, which can be used to help doctors plan surgery for transplant patients. More
Companies can gain a competitive advantage by designing workplaces that make wellbeing a default choice, argue the authors of The Healthy Workplace Nudge book in a talk Dezeen hosted with Haworth in Chicago. More
Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux's modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light. More
Designers Candice Blanc and Ulysse Martel have created a collection of iridescent exercise weights that can also be displayed as sculptures in the home. More
Industrial design graduate Gwen Gage's has created a plastic mesh that connect medication boxes together to allow easier delivery of malaria medicine in remote sub-Saharan African villages. More
Riga School of Design and Art graduate Paula Lorence has created a series of objects to help children with autism spectrum disorders with their sensory development. More
The mineralogy collection at the Melbourne Museum inspired Australian designer Leah Heiss' Facett hearing aid, which aims to shift talk "from disability to desirability". More