Medtech

England could be the first country in the world to prescribe medicinally licensed e-cigarettes to help reduce smoking rates. E-cigarettes could be prescribed on the NHS in England to help people stop smoking tobacco products, as health and social care secretary Sajid Javid welcomed the latest step forward in the licensing process for manufacturers. The [...]

A UK-based business has received £2.85million investment funding to forge ahead with its development of the Occuity Indigo, an innovative non-contact, optical glucose meter. The device will allow the 4.7million people in the UK with diabetes to monitor their blood-sugar levels through a simple scan of the eye. Occuity, the medical technology start-up, which is developing [...]

Medtech firm Glyconics has appointed internationally renowned diabetes expert Dr Päivi Paldánius as its first Chief Medical Officer (CMO). The move comes as it prepares to progress to its next clinical phase before embarking on a Series A funding round next year. Glyconics exploits the ability of Infrared light to produce distinctive molecular ‘fingerprints’ for [...]