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Reducing paperwork in busy health and care setting removes potential contamination points. There is a good reason why almost every retailer has moved to contactless payments. It’s quick, clean, there’s no contact, and it’s more secure. Reimagining quality and health and safety inspections without paper provides similar paybacks. As well as removing a potential infection [...]
The world’s first Alzheimer’s disease drug candidate designed by artificial intelligence (AI) is to enter Phase I clinical trial in the US. The study will assess whether DSP-0038 has improved antipsychotic effects in patients with Alzheimer’s psychosis and evaluate if it can improve the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, including agitation, aggression, anxiety and [...]
New statistics from digital mental health provider Kooth has shown an alarming increase in the number of people in the UK struggling.
Healthtech pioneer DrFirst has announced further investment which takes its fundraising in the past year to $135million. The business works with almost 300,000 healthcare professionals, including more than 100,000 prescribers, nearly half of the electronic health record (EHR) systems in the US, and more than 1,400 hospitals in the US and Canada. DrFirst was founded [...]
A world-first in biosampling is helping to redefine the traditional way in which researchers in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry gather the biosamples they need. Through the creation of Biosample Hub, industry can find academic biobank partners to secure biosamples in a way which provides solutions to the traditional problems around biosample procurement. Recent research [...]
A groundbreaking app which offers free 24/7 access to therapists and real-time support for the 3.3 million young people in the UK struggling with their mental health has been launched. Hidden Strength is available to people aged from 13 to 24 and facilitates a community of like-minded people to anonymously come together and support each [...]
A new partnership will explore insights and share solutions to some of the most urgent challenges in health and social care. The partnership between Centric Health Media and Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network (KSS AHSN) unites two very different organisations around a single shared purpose – getting under the surface of health and [...]
The UK’s first healthcare training app to use simulated working environments to equip care and medical staff with the skills they need has been launched. Newcross World is an app-based training platform, which provides a virtual 3D world of the settings in which staff work - such as hospitals, care homes, prisons and schools - [...]
This week marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week which is aiming to get people talking about their personal issues and how they are feeling.
A new initiative is being launched to support UK-based SMEs and innovators to better understand the pathway to bring medical technologies to market and enhance innovation for patient benefit. Market Access for MedTech is led by the University of Southampton Institute for Life Sciences and National Institute for Health Research Surgical MedTech Co-operative, powered by [...]
