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The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) today published three interconnected reports offering the most comprehensive analysis to date of the challenges facing UK MedTech innovators. Drawing on insights from 240 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), 40 investors and 10 university technology transfer offices, the reports spell out the solutions needed to unlock the full potential [...]
Digital Health has appointed Chishick Communications as its official PR partner for Rewired 2026, the UK’s largest digital health conference and exhibition. The appointment marks a new chapter in Digital Health’s communications strategy for the conference, with founder Natalie Chishick providing a highly personalised approach and a deep understanding of the UK health tech landscape. [...]
Prosper AI has today announced US$5 million in seed funding to accelerate its voice AI platform, which builds specialised AI agents for healthcare’s most critical front and back-office workflows. The round was led by Emergence Capital, the first backers of Salesforce, Veeva, and Doximity, with participation from Y Combinator, CRV, and Company Ventures. Prosper AI [...]
Millions of patients could get faster diagnoses as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are trialled across NHS screening services through a new cloud-based research platform. The AI Research Screening Platform (AIR-SP), backed by nearly £6m in government funding, is being developed by NHS England. It will allow trusts across the country to join trials of AI [...]
Health tech company Magentus will be in Birmingham this week for IBMS Congress 2025, joining pathology leaders from across the UK to showcase Evolution vLab, an enterprise-grade Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). Evolution vLab has been co-designed with pathology teams to help labs streamline workflows, reduce duplication, and unify reporting across sites. Designed for high-volume [...]
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says large trials suggest ketamine-based drugs may ease depression symptoms. Experts have backed the use of ketamine in depression treatment, while stressing that more evidence is needed before other psychedelics can be considered safe. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) issued a position statement highlighting ketamine, saying it is "the [...]
A US Centers for Disease Control vaccines advisory panel has voted to recommend separate vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox instead of a single combined jab. The advisory committee on immunisation practices (ACIP) shifted from recommending the combined MMRV vaccine to separate MMR and chickenpox doses. The move has raised concerns about compliance and [...]
Air pollution is affecting how well people sleep, according to a global review of 1.2 million people across six countries. The metastudy analysed 25 high-quality studies since 2015, covering people over 45 years old in China, India, the US, Germany and other nations. Particle pollution, nitrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide were all linked to shorter [...]
International law firm McDermott Will & Schulte advised Sycamore Partners, a leading New York-based private equity firm, as UK healthcare regulatory counsel on its acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. The total transaction is valued at up to $23.7 billion. Sycamore Partners specialises in consumer, distribution and retail-related investments and partners with management teams to [...]
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has received CE mark approval to expand the indication for its current-generation INGEVITY™+ Pacing Leads – thin wires that are implanted in the heart and connected to a pacemaker. This expansion now includes conduction system pacing (CSP) and sensing of the left bundle branch area (LBBA) of the heart when [...]
