Interviews

  • Empowering men to take control of their intimate health

    After successfully overcoming his own problems with erectile dysfunction through a self-devised solution, Max Kersting is now changing the reality for men around the world, tackling both the intimate health issue itself and the stigma that persists around it. Health Tech World meets the CEO and founder of pioneering app Regimen    Through the creation of [...]

  • The future is VR

    In the mental health space, VR has been identified as a tool that could potentially revolutionise mental health therapy. Health Tech World learns more about the role of Emteq Labs in advancing this using both VR and AR    In mental health therapy, therapists will often use techniques like CBT and exposure therapy to treat [...]

  • Transforming health and wellbeing through AI

    Health and wellbeing solutions are being made more accessible than ever before through the AI-led innovation of Solutions 4 Health, which is using technology to transform the delivery of public health services. Health Tech World meets its head of AI and innovations, Keshav Sankla   As a long-standing provider of public health and wellbeing programmes [...]

  • Unlocking new potential for athletes

    With the creation of its pioneering glucose monitoring system, Supersapiens is redefining training and the achievement of optimum results for athletes of all abilities. Already in use by world-renowned sports stars, Health Tech World discusses its impact and potential with co-founder Fitzalan Crowe   While the importance of managing glucose intake is now being more [...]

  • Playing COVID catch up: how new technology could end the cancer backlog

    New health technology, Nanovery have created a nanorobot that could help to cut the COVID cancer backlog and help doctors diagnose faster

  • Patent filings show increasing number of applications for blockchain innovation in healthcare

    More sectors than ever before are starting to utilise blockchain, European patent figures reveal. Patent attorney, David Grant, talks to Health Tech World about the growing interest in blockchain across the healthcare sector and the associated increase in patent activity   Patent attorney David Grant, a partner at the Intellectual property firm Marks & Clerk, [...]

  • Digitalisation continues to roll out in NHS Trust

    The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated plans for digitalisation at Wolverhampton Royal NHS Trust, with its use now being adopted in increasing areas of frontline healthcare. Health Tech World learns more   Initially a project to support patients with COVID-19 symptoms, struggling with respiratory problems, the use of remote monitoring is now being rolled out in other [...]

  • Rehab robotics pioneer Fourier secures Saudi Aramco backing

    Rehabilitation robotics unicorn Fourier Intelligence is set to take its ongoing global expansion to the next level after securing funding from Saudi Aramco, becoming the first rehab tech company in the world to gain financial backing from a major player in the international investment market.  Fourier is now targeting global market expansion - with the [...]

  • 1907 Foundation: A new approach to funding research

    1907 Foundation is a new nonprofit grantmaker for innovative mental health research that takes a unique approach to funding scientific research.  1907 Foundation, a US-based mental health research funder, aims to support young researchers with bold ideas while undercutting dogma and reducing non-scientific bias in grant allocation. The charity invests exclusively in early-career scientists with [...]

  • Could C. elegans be the key to slowing ageing?

    Health Tech World spoke to Magnitude Biosciences about its groundbreaking work with C. elegans and how it is assisting biotechs in the development of drugs that can slow ageing and tackle age-related neurodegenerative diseases.  C. elegans is a tiny worm about a millimetre in length. It’s been used in research since the late 1960s after [...]