Reframe Daily: Malaria-blocking ivermectin, direct-text gene alerts & 3 more breakthroughs—your July 23 health roundup

Reframe Daily is where Christin Chong (neuroscience PhD, chaplain, healthtech strategy consultant) curates optimistic and credible healthtech news so you don’t have to.

Today in one sentence: A common parasite pill kept more kids from getting malaria, direct texts to relatives boosted lifesaving DNA tests, a cholesterol drug helped chemo fight deadly brain tumors, a quick light scan in the ear spotted hearing problems sooner, and simply putting lotion on babies each day cut their chances of itchy eczema.

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Good news: Monthly doses of a well-known parasite drug lowered malaria cases in Kenyan children by 26% without serious side-effects—showing a simple pill could help stop mosquitoes from spreading the disease.

Ivermectin to Control Malaria — A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Market readiness: 🙂🙂🙂 (already FDA-approved for other uses, but needs larger public-health studies and WHO review for this new role)

Good news: A study shows that clinics can legally text or email relatives of patients who carry dangerous gene variants—doubling the odds that family members get lifesaving DNA tests in time.

Maximizing Cascade Genetic Testing for Disease Prevention Through Direct Notification of At-Risk Relatives

Market readiness: 🙂🙂🙂 (uses existing communication tools; wide rollout awaits policy adoption and training)

Good news: Scientists found that the cholesterol-lowering drug lomitapide makes a common brain-tumor chemo much stronger in mice—opening a fresh, drug-repurposing path for hard-to-treat glioblastoma.

Lomitapide Enhances Cytotoxic Effects of Temozolomide in Chemo-Resistant Glioblastoma

Market readiness: 🙂🙂 (preclinical mouse success and cell data; human trials still ahead)

Good news: A mini-camera that uses light, not X-rays, let surgeons measure inner-ear fluid in 19 patients and linked the readings to hearing loss—paving the way for faster, scar-free diagnosis and treatment decisions.

Human Inner-Ear Fluid Imbalance Detected by Optical Coherence Tomography Correlates With Hearing Loss

Market readiness: 🙂🙂 (proof-of-concept in the OR; engineers now miniaturizing for office use)

Good news: A large randomized trial found that moisturizing babies’ skin every day from birth cut the risk of eczema by age two—an easy, low-cost way to spare kids itchy rashes.

Emollients to Prevent Pediatric Eczema: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Market readiness: 🙂🙂🙂🙂 (common over-the-counter creams; guidance updates could bring immediate public use)

Thank you for taking the time to take care of yourself and your loved ones.