Life sciences
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Scientists have grown embryo-like structures in the laboratory that produced human blood cells, raising new possibilities for regenerative medicine. The discovery could one day enable patients who need bone marrow transplants to receive cells grown from their own tissue, avoiding compatibility issues. The embryo models were made from stem cells, without using eggs or sperm, [...]
The UK government has announced £50m in funding for mental health research that will place people with lived experience at the centre of developing new treatments. The Mental Health Goals programme aims to speed up the development of new medicines, technologies and therapies for conditions affecting one in four people in England. Poor mental health [...]
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a platform that combines automated lab methods with artificial intelligence to design nanoparticles for drug delivery. The system helps researchers identify and optimise recipes for nanoparticles – tiny carriers that encapsulate drugs and deliver them to specific sites in the body. In a proof of concept, it created [...]
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 [...]
