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The British Business Bank has committed £100m to a fund investing in UK health tech companies. The backing for Apposite Healthcare Growth I will be the bank's largest fund commitment to date. Apposite Healthcare Growth I will invest in innovative companies across medical products, diagnostics, life sciences tools, digital health and pharmaceutical outsourcing [...]
Gene therapy has helped a six-year-old girl see in the dark again after treatment for a rare inherited eye condition. Saffie Sandford, from Stevenage, has Leber's congenital amaurosis, or LCA, a rare genetic condition that prevents cells in the eye from making a protein needed for normal vision. Without treatment, her family had been told [...]
The first UK volunteers have received a bird flu vaccine in a clinical trial aimed at protecting against a possible pandemic. The jab targets the H5N1 strain of flu, a form of bird flu that has caused major outbreaks in birds worldwide and has also spread to some mammals. The risk to humans is currently [...]
Health and social care staff from two NHS trusts and the wider BNSSG integrated care system will engage with tech companies on 13 May, as Bristol NHS Group advances its digital strategy and looks to take forward the 10 Year Health Plan. Bristol NHS Group’s Local Health Tech Showcase is the latest in a new [...]
AI chatbots are recommending alternatives to chemotherapy for cancer treatment, potentially putting lives at risk, a study has found. A team from the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center tested widely used bots including xAI's Grok, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Meta's AI and High-Flyer's DeepSeek. Almost half of the answers on cancer [...]
Article produced in association with Jeen Health Non-invasive prenatal testing has been part of UK antenatal care since the early 2010s, but the technology underneath it has changed considerably. Two developments in particular are reshaping the field in 2026: advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) that widen what the test can detect, and the addition of [...]
Mental health platform Dr-Julian is set to provide an exciting new service after winning funding from NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB). Dr-Julian, one of the UK’s fastest-growing mental health platforms and care delivery partners, is one of only six companies selected by an expert panel after more than 130 bidders [...]
Bowel cancer patients stayed cancer-free for nearly three years after immunotherapy before surgery in a clinical trial. Researchers found patients with a specific type of bowel cancer showed no sign of the disease returning when they were given immune-boosting drugs before surgery. The results were described as "extremely encouraging". Dr Kai-Keen Shiu, chief [...]
Patients in England face a postcode lottery for robot-assisted surgery on the NHS, an investigation has found. The study, based on Freedom of Information requests, found London has 28 robotic surgical systems across its NHS trusts, compared with just six across the South West of England. There is no standard funding model for the equipment, [...]
brainjo has raised €2m for VR mental health tech, with its first product focused on children with ADHD. The Regensburg-based startup develops Digital Health Applications, known as DiGAs, which can be prescribed by therapists or physicians and reimbursed by health insurance. Its VR-based tools are designed to complement traditional psychotherapy rather than replace it, allowing [...]
