Mental health
A serious video game developed in Cornwall aims to help young people explore mental health challenges linked to adverse childhood experiences such as bereavement or poverty. The Ace of Hearts game is part of ATTUNE, a £35m UK-wide programme using arts-based methods, including gaming, to explore how negative early experiences affect mental health. Developers at [...]
Mental health platform LISSUN has acquired US-based Being Cares as it moves to integrate AI into family-focused mental healthcare services. The deal combines LISSUN’s therapist-led model with Being Cares’ AI-based mental health mapping system, aiming to deliver a tech-driven approach to care. Being Cares currently supports nearly one million users worldwide through its AI system, [...]
An automated system has allowed researchers to observe schizophrenia-related behaviours in mice in a more natural environment, which could support future psychiatric studies. The IntelliCage platform uses microchipped mice and automated data tracking to monitor behaviour without human contact, helping to reduce interference in preclinical models of mental illness. Researchers from Fujita Health University in [...]
Better and Speeds Healthcare, an outsourced medicines management provider to the independent sector, have finalised an agreement to roll out the Better Meds solution across 55 mental health sites in the UK. The strategic partnership will see services move from manual recording on paper charts and whiteboards to streamlined, electronic prescribing and medicine administration (ePMA) [...]
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 [...]
UAE-based femtech startup Ovasave has raised US$1.2m in early funding to expand its fertility and hormone health services across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC. The digital-first platform, founded in 2023 by Majd Abu Zant and Torkia Mahloul, offers at-home hormone testing, virtual consultations, personalised supplement protocols and egg freezing support. The funding will support [...]
Leeds-based paediatric healthtech company Little Journey has raised £6m to expand its digital tools supporting children through medical care. The Series A investment will support the commercial growth and product development of the company’s cloud-based platform, which helps children and caregivers prepare for medical procedures and clinical trials. Little Journey’s mobile app uses interactive digital [...]
A mental health service offering therapy with no waiting lists has opened the UK’s first high street hub in Leeds. Towards opened the hub this week, offering in-person and online sessions delivered by qualified and qualifying therapists with experience in adult, child and young people’s services. The Leeds hub is the first of several planned [...]
Children living with multiple long-term health issues experience severe emotional distress alongside physical challenges, according to a study that used AI to analyse their social media activity. Researchers examined nearly 400 posts from paediatric patients and their caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, using artificial intelligence language models to assess emotional and psychological wellbeing. Led by [...]
A former Ernst Young (EY) corporate lawyer and founder of the French PCOS blog Les Natives, has raised €1.6 million in seed funding to help women suffering from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Solence was founded by Clara Stephenson in 2022 with the mission to make personalised and patient-centric care available to all women with PCOS, [...]
