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Femtech company Daye has secured a patent for its organic tampon, which can be used for both menstrual care and diagnostics. The patent covers the tampon’s design and manufacturing process. It features plastic-free materials, a protective sleeve to prevent fibre shedding, dual surfaces for absorbing fluid, and a cupped tip that expands evenly to reduce [...]
The UK government plans to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to hackers, while private companies must inform authorities if they intend to meet ransom demands. The measures were announced on Tuesday by home office security minister Dan Jarvis and are intended to signal to cybercriminals that the UK is united in its stance against [...]
Patients in the UK will gain faster access to medical devices approved in trusted countries under new plans from the medicines regulator MHRA. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has outlined steps to streamline routes to market, including a planned consultation on the indefinite recognition of CE-marked devices – those meeting European safety standards [...]
By Eat More Fruit Communications If you're leading marketing for a medical device company, chances are you're focusing on the wrong things. Your novel mode of action. Your breakthrough technology. Your innovative mechanism. Here's the uncomfortable truth: only 20 per cent of Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) will ever care about that level of detail. The other [...]
The new NHS National Rehabilitation Centre will deploy technology to help patients to maintain their independence as they recover from life-changing injuries and illnesses and regain quality of life. Airwave Healthcare has been selected to equip bedrooms at the new centre with ‘intelligent bedside terminals’ – iPads that will provide much more than the entertainment [...]
The NHS will give 7,000 premature babies in England a new RSV jab that offers protection against the common respiratory virus this winter. From late September, around 7,000 high-risk infants and babies born before 32 weeks this year will receive a single dose of nirsevimab, which provides six months’ protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). [...]
A Scottish PhD student has created an AI device to support early skin cancer diagnosis in remote areas, without needing internet or direct access to a dermatologist. Tess Watt, a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, developed the system using a small camera connected to a Raspberry Pi – a low-cost, energy-efficient handheld computer. [...]
As the NHS lays out its ambitious 10-year plan for the future of healthcare in the UK, diagnostics and digital transformation are taking centre stage. From AI-assisted clinical tools to value-based procurement models and the expansion of Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs), the plan signals a renewed focus on technology supporting a more equitable, efficient, and [...]
Doctors in Gloucestershire will offer free football tickets to patients with depression under a new social prescribing scheme. The initiative, launching this season, has been developed by Labour MP Dr Simon Opher and Ecotricity owner Dale Vince. It will offer patients at surgeries across Gloucestershire tickets to National League side Forest Green Rovers at The [...]
By Paul Wye, Head of AI, Answer Digital The topic of whether healthcare providers should appoint Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) is no longer theoretical. The United States has been embedding these roles within healthcare systems for a number of years, and just recently a trailblazing consultant has been named as Scotland’s first Head of AI [...]
