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Young people are underrepresented in medical trials, prompting warnings that future treatments could be less safe or effective for younger generations, The Guardian has revealed. Gen Z – those born between the late 1990s and the early 2000s – make up 8 per cent of England’s population but just 4.4 per cent of participants in [...]
Imprivata has announced the acquisition of Verosint, a leader in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions. The acquisition represents Imprivata’s latest strategic investment in modernising enterprise access management with solutions that deliver advanced, frictionless, and passwordless access for every user type, including frontline staff, knowledge workers, and third-party identities, while strengthening security, streamlining compliance, [...]
From AI to inclusion, HETT 2025 brought together innovators, NHS leaders, and industry partners to explore how technology and people are shaping the future of healthcare. This year’s HETT returned to ExCeL London with renewed purpose. Coming a few weeks after the release of the NHS 10-Year Plan, the event focused on turning ambition into [...]
On September 25, hundreds of healthcare professionals, investors, and industry changemakers gathered in London for McDermott Will & Schulte’s annual Healthcare Private Equity (HPE) Europe conference. Keynote speakers Steph McGovern and Robert Peston, hosts of the hit UK podcast The Rest Is Money covering money, politics, and the markets, kicked off a high-impact event with remarks from [...]
Boston Scientific has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nalu Medical, a privately held medtech company developing minimally invasive neuromodulation therapies for chronic pain, in a deal that will further strengthen its position in interventional pain management. The company has been a strategic investor in Nalu since 2017. Under the terms announced, Boston Scientific will [...]
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) has achieved significant time savings across its wards by introducing automated vital signs integration into its Sunrise™ Electronic Patient Record (EPR), provided by Altera Digital Health. The trust now estimates a saving of 2.5 minutes per observation, equating to approximately 50 per cent time saving for clinicians to [...]
Built on 1.3 billion structured data points shared by over 3 million people living with 1,250 chronic conditions, OpenStuff transforms lived patient health experiences into real-time, actionable insights. More than half of U.S. adults report turning to social media for health information, yet over one-third encounter high levels of misinformation. Large language models now risk [...]
By Sharon Hanley, director of Primary Care, X-on Health General practice is operating under unsustainable pressure, it has long been the front door to the NHS, but despite the introduction of tools such as digital and AI automations designed to assist GPs, the weight of demand is intense. Rising patient need, widening inequalities, and a [...]
Samsung Electronics has completed the acquisition of Xealth, the US-based digital health platform that connects clinicians, patients and digital tools, in a move aimed at accelerating its vision for AI- and data-powered connected care. The deal, originally announced in July, brings together Samsung’s global device ecosystem – including wearables and smartphones – with Xealth’s platform, [...]
Researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based cancer vaccine that prevented melanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancers from spreading in mice. Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found the vaccine could both shrink and eliminate cancer tumours in rodents, as well as act preventively. The experimental jab kept up to 88 per cent of vaccinated mice [...]
