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A new health and wellbeing business support programme, created to accelerate new product and service development across West Yorkshire, has officially launched. Designed to kickstart new and emerging enterprises in health and wellbeing, the Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator (HHII) is being delivered as a strategic partnership between Kirklees Council, the University of Huddersfield and the [...]
Artificial intelligence can forecast people’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases up to 10 years ahead by detecting patterns in medical records, research shows. The system, called Delphi-2M, estimates the likelihood of 1,231 diseases by analysing hospital admissions, GP records and lifestyle factors to project future health outcomes. It uses similar technology to chatbots like [...]
By Roger Mazzella, Global Medical Industry Leader, Qt Group When designing a product, it’s natural to strive for innovation. However, in the MedTech space, chasing the latest features can sometimes sideline the very people who use these devices and applications. Users may be left struggling with complex interfaces that hinder rather than help. [...]
Biostate AI, a company accelerating biological research through AI models, today announced the launch of K-Dense Beta, a comprehensive multi-agent AI research system that can compress research cycles from years to days, while eliminating hallucinations that plague generative AI models. In testing, K-Dense made a scientific breakthrough in longevity research, which will be published in [...]
Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership is to expand its successful partnership with health tech company EQL through the further development of the digital Phio app, which can be accessed from any electronic device such as a mobile phone, computer or tablet. This new development, which will be a UK first, will not [...]
Health Tech World explores the latest business developments in the world of health technology. Philips and Masimo to advance access to patient monitoring measurement tech Royal Philips and Masimo have renewed their multi-year strategic collaboration. The collaboration will now be working to accelerate the development and delivery of next-generation patient monitoring solutions. The companies state [...]
The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) will once again lead one of the largest national pavilions at WHX Dubai 2026, taking place from 9–12 February 2026 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre. Formerly known as Arab Health, WHX Dubai has evolved into a bolder, broader, and more internationally focused global health innovation summit – attracting [...]
Artificial intelligence can help spot which patients with keratoconus need early treatment, avoiding years of routine monitoring, new research has found. An AI algorithm analysed 36,673 eye scans from 6,684 patients to determine who needed urgent cross-linking treatment and who could be safely monitored. The system placed around two-thirds of patients into a [...]
Eli Lilly has launched a platform giving biotech firms access to AI models trained on proprietary data the company says cost more than US$1bn to build. Lilly TuneLab will provide smaller biotechnology companies with drug discovery models developed using years of the company’s research data. These include drug disposition, safety and preclinical datasets representing experimental [...]
US drugmaker Merck has scrapped its £1bn London research centre and will cut 125 scientific jobs in the capital this year. The planned UK Discovery Centre at Belgrove House, opposite St Pancras and King’s Cross stations, was already under construction and due to open in two years. It had been expected to employ about 800 [...]
