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The first implantation of the pioneering bioprosthetic artificial heart created by CARMAT has been made in the United States, it has been announced. The Aeson artificial heart was designed to fulfil an unmet medical need by providing a therapeutic alternative to people suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure. Now, the heart - hailed as the [...]
Stroke care is being revolutionised in Poland following the first national tender in Europe for Brainomix to deploy its AI stroke software. Each year more than 100,000 people will have a stroke in Poland, with some patients requiring specialist treatment in the form of mechanical thrombectomy – a procedure typically performed at a comprehensive stroke [...]
Healthtech consultancy Future Perfect Healthcare has partnered with Zetta Genomics to implement its XetaBase genome-optimised data store at the East Genomics Laboratory Hub, in what has been hailed as a 'game changer' for the service. The partnership involves the roll-out and ongoing support and maintenance of Xetabase at the lead laboratory of the East GLH, [...]
Digital Health and Care Wales has awarded a two-year contract to Better for a clinical data repository that will help to transform care and treatment for patients. Using an open-platform approach, patient records can be shared between clinical systems through common standards, supporting more specialised treatments and powering critical research to provide the insights needed [...]
Meet the Leah - the CGI ‘person’ created to highlight the potential consequences of not getting enough sleep. Leah serves as a warning to people living with insomnia, a condition which affects as many as one-third of UK adults - a figure which increases to more than half in those aged 65 and over. According [...]
A new international training programme for future biotech entrepreneurs who want to develop and commercialise their ventures has been launched. BioTech Bootcamp is an eight-week digital training program, where up to 12 teams from Sweden, Denmark and Germany will have the opportunity to develop their business ideas. Through expert lectures, individual coaching and mentorship, the participants receive training [...]
A Californian health tech firm which develops products that address neurological disorders including dementia has launched a series of memory-boosting apps. Leucadia Therapeutics is launching eight apps that help exercise memory and cognition, including a personalised memory tracker called ProCogny. ProCogny allows users to play memory-intensive puzzles and games, daily brain boost collections of mini-puzzles, [...]
Bethan Halliwell of intellectual property firm Withers & Rogers on how monitoring and tracking tech is evolving and increasingly influencing healthcare.
Being immersed in a beautiful 'virtual' Icelandic landscape can reduce the pain caused by uncomfortable medical procedures, new research has found. The study compared patients with and without virtual reality (VR) headsets having rigid cystoscopies, where a rigid telescope is inserted through the urethra into the bladder. Diagnosing and treating bladder cancer usually requires checking [...]
Multinational Johnson & Johnson has launched a global network of research partnerships that aims to speed the discovery of solutions to health challenges. ‘J&J Centers for Global Health Discovery’ will leverage the “institutional strengths of Johnson & Johnson and leading academic institutions” to accelerate research that addresses the “world's most pressing global health challenges”. The first [...]
