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Predictive Health Intelligence (PHI) and Sano Genetics have announced the completion of recruitment into the LiveWell study, with 996 participants enrolled from a single NHS site in less than a year. Delivered in partnership with Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which supported clinical oversight and research delivery, and Tawazun Health, and supported by Innovate UK, the [...]
Digital health services are still failing people with the greatest health needs, with language, access and skills barriers limiting use, a World Health Organization (WHO) review has found. A scoping review led by WHO/Europe and Public Health Wales found that people with greater health needs and language barriers still struggle to use digital health services [...]
Scientists have made a significant step towards a blood test that detects brain tumours and monitors them in real time. The new test is 90 per cent accurate and could be used by GPs to pick up glioblastomas. It is also being expanded to include other types of brain tumour. The study, led by scientists [...]
Article produced in association with Spital Clinic and Jeen Health The Women's Health Strategy for England, published in 2022, identified significant gaps in how women's health needs are met across the life course. Among the issues highlighted were poor access to specialists, delays in diagnosis for conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS, and a healthcare [...]
A new data layer for clinical research and real-world healthcare By Sanius Health Healthcare systems capture extraordinary volumes of biological data yet they consistently miss one of the most direct signals of health: how patients actually feel. Laboratory results, imaging, prescriptions, and hospital activity are measured in detail, but the patient’s own experience of improvement [...]
Boston Scientific Corporation today announced positive 12-month primary endpoint results from the VAPEUR clinical trial comparing Rezūm Water Vapour Therapy to dual drug therapy, also referred to as combination therapy, for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in sexually active men. Key findings from the study, presented at the annual European Association of [...]
Ternary has raised £3.6m in seed funding to scale a new AI drug discovery platform designed to create molecular glue drugs. Molecular glues are small drug molecules that force two proteins inside a cell to stick together. When they bind, they can switch off harmful proteins or restore lost function. In theory, this approach could [...]
The Clementine Churchill Hospital, part of Circle Health Group is the UK’s first private hospital to install Intuitive’s da Vinci 5 Surgical System. Specially designed to support the delivery of minimally invasive procedures in general surgery, urology, gynaecology and other specialities, da Vinci 5 is a revolutionary new robotic-assisted surgical system which is now operational [...]
UK Biobank data was exposed online dozens of times, a Guardian investigation has found, raising questions over how patient records were safeguarded. The investigation found that files from UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, appear to have been posted online by researchers who were given access to the confidential data. [...]
A new data layer for clinical research and real-world healthcare By Sanius Health The missing dimension in healthcare data Healthcare systems capture extraordinary volumes of biological data yet they consistently miss one of the most direct signals of health: how patients actually feel. Laboratory results, imaging, prescriptions, and hospital activity are measured in detail, but [...]
