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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 [...]
The NHS App has recorded more than 16m registrations and is the most downloaded free app in England, according to NHS Digital. NHS login, the service which supports the NHS App, now has almost 28m users, this is up from around 2.2m in September 2020. The online service, which is managed by NHS Digital, provides [...]
A new drug has successfully treated Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia in mice. C9 ALS/FTD is one of the most common inherited forms of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and frontotemporal dementia. A collaboration led by scientists at Scripps Research in Florida has successfully treated the genetic disease in mice with a drug molecule engineered in [...]
AI-powered medical image analysis specialist Thirona has received funding from Belgian investment fund HERAN Partners and the Netherlands-based Borski Fund. Thirona develops artificial intelligence solutions for lung and retinal image analysis. It focuses on common diseases such as Asthma, COPD, Age-related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy, as well as rare and complex conditions, including Cystic Fibrosis and Idiopathic [...]
Global cancer leaders have called for an urgent and comprehensive look at ways to advance health equity, using lessons learned from Covid-19. The 2021 World Cancer Leaders’ Summit, a gathering of global cancer leaders, convened this week (October 25 and 26) for the first time since the pandemic began, and concluded with a call to [...]
FINN Partners global health chair Gil Bashe has joined telehealth and remote-care technology provider Rezilient Health. The Health Tech World correspondent will support Rezilient Health's communication efforts and advise executives on their public health, partnership and brand-building efforts. Bashe's 40-year career is rooted in healthcare. He was a health products trade association lobbyist, then launched a [...]
Sponsored The One Dorset pathology network is up and running with its new CliniSys laboratory information system following a big-bang go-live at all three of its laboratories. The WinPath Enterprise implementation included the first deployment of the CliniSys Specimen Processing module, a cloud-based system that can be used to track tissue samples and slides through [...]
Researchers at King’s College Hospital and Queen Mary University of London have found that a new computer-based algorithm can rank drugs used to treat primary liver cancer, based on their efficacy in reducing cancer cell growth. The algorithm, named Drug Ranking Using Machine Learning (DRUML), was previously designed to identify effective treatments for patients diagnosed [...]
A novel AI product developed by Pangaea Data has been shown to be effective in the pharmaceutical sector, providing clinicians and researchers with valuable clinical narratives. Pangaea’s Intelligence Extractor and Summarisation (PIES) was showcased recently at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. A senior principal data scientist from a global pharmaceutical company demonstrated how PIES’s [...]
UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged £2.1bn to improve NHS digital technology in today's budget. Sunak said the funding will support the “innovative use of digital technology so hospitals and other care organisations are as connected and efficient as possible". He said this will free up valuable NHS staff time, allowing them to spend more [...]
