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More families across the UK are choosing to live under one roof, with grandparents moving in to share daily life and care responsibilities. Shared bills. A grandmother who picks up the kids on Tuesdays. Or just someone in the house when the boiler dies at midnight in January. The practical side makes sense. What nobody [...]
Boston Scientific Corporation today announced positive 12-month primary endpoint results from the VAPEUR clinical trial comparing Rezūm Water Vapour Therapy to dual drug therapy, also referred to as combination therapy, for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in sexually active men. Key findings from the study, presented at the annual European Association of [...]
Ternary has raised £3.6m in seed funding to scale a new AI drug discovery platform designed to create molecular glue drugs. Molecular glues are small drug molecules that force two proteins inside a cell to stick together. When they bind, they can switch off harmful proteins or restore lost function. In theory, this approach could [...]
The Clementine Churchill Hospital, part of Circle Health Group is the UK’s first private hospital to install Intuitive’s da Vinci 5 Surgical System. Specially designed to support the delivery of minimally invasive procedures in general surgery, urology, gynaecology and other specialities, da Vinci 5 is a revolutionary new robotic-assisted surgical system which is now operational [...]
UK Biobank data was exposed online dozens of times, a Guardian investigation has found, raising questions over how patient records were safeguarded. The investigation found that files from UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, appear to have been posted online by researchers who were given access to the confidential data. [...]
By Con Raso, managing director, Tuned Global Music and movement are neurologically intertwined. Tempo influences pace, rhythm supports endurance, and familiar tracks can reduce perceived exertion. Beyond physiology, music creates shared moments. It sets the atmosphere, builds anticipation and turns individual activity into collective experience. For sports, wellness and fitness brands, this means music selection [...]
A new data layer for clinical research and real-world healthcare By Sanius Health The missing dimension in healthcare data Healthcare systems capture extraordinary volumes of biological data yet they consistently miss one of the most direct signals of health: how patients actually feel. Laboratory results, imaging, prescriptions, and hospital activity are measured in detail, but [...]
By Stephen Ferry, CEO of IEG Group The ICB landscape is going through an evolution. There has been a recent wave of ICB mergers and clustering being approved to take place across England, with many mergers taking effect in April 2026, others planned later for April 2027 and work already underway. For ICBs, these changes [...]
Palantir's NHS contract could open the door to the kind of data-sharing Reform UK would use for a UK version of US immigration raids, health leaders have been told. Palantir Technologies, the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, won a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform in [...]
A gene editing tool safely inserted large DNA segments in mice, pointing to a potential new route for genetic medicines. The technique uses circular, single-stranded DNA rather than the usual double-stranded form of DNA, the molecule that carries genetic instructions. The approach is known as INSTALL, short for "integration through nucleus-synthesised template addition of large [...]
