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  • Thousands of men to trial prostate cancer home testing kit

    Thousands of men to trial prostate cancer home testing kit

    Thousands of men worldwide are to receive a home test kit for prostate cancer – on the back of pioneering research.

  • BT steps up healthcare plans with new appointment

    BT steps up healthcare plans with new appointment

    Professor Sultan Mahmud has been appointed as the new director of healthcare for BT’s Enterprise unit, as part of the company’s strategy to expand its reach in healthcare. Sultan will leave his post as the chief innovation, integration and research officer at Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust (RWT) to start his new role next month. [...]

  • Pioneering AI drug discovery platform to raise up to US$525m

    Pioneering AI drug discovery platform to raise up to US$525m

    Exscientia, a clinical stage pharmatech company using AI to design patient-based drugs, announced that it has completed a US$225m funding round; with further backing to come.

  • AI boosts speech and language capability

    AI boosts speech and language capability

    An app which uses AI to enable stroke survivors to rebuild their speech and language capability at home has been launched, inspired by the personal experience of its creator.  SpeechFirst supports survivors to build on their speech and language therapy provision through using AI to detect incorrect facial movements and pronunciation and provide real-time tips [...]

  • Ten digital priorities for NHS patient safety

    Ten digital priorities for NHS patient safety

    Patient safety and digital experts give their views on immediate priorities that could make a significant difference in the NHS. Professor Mike Bewick, England’s former national deputy medical director and board member of C2-Ai:   Strengthen digital literacy   Eric Topol’s 2019 review of the future workforce laid the foundations around this urgent requirement which [...]

  • Pacemakers could increase depression and anxiety risk

    Pacemakers could increase depression and anxiety risk

    New research has suggested that patients who live with implantable defibrillators are at a higher risk of being diagnosed with depression. The study from Odense University Hospital examined over 1,000 patients who had been fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and assed their anxiety and depression levels as well as their physical quality of [...]

  • Patient flow technology firm expands its work with the NHS

    Patient flow technology firm expands its work with the NHS

    Patient flow technology firm TeleTracking is expanding its work within the NHS to help a number of Trusts deal with the healthcare debt brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The firm has helped hospital patients get from admission to discharge in the most effective way, utilising its capacity and bed management technologies. Its systems allow [...]

  • The exoskeleton that could stamp out slow walking frustrations

    The exoskeleton that could stamp out slow walking frustrations

    HT World reports on an innovative tech solution to an age-old problem.

  • The healthcare IT crisis that needs urgent attention

    The healthcare IT crisis that needs urgent attention

    Steve Saxton and Shakib Ahmed, of Edge Testing Solutions, on the fixes and approaches needed to solve UK healthcare’s technology challenges.

  • A simple solution for a common problem

    A simple solution for a common problem

    Intravenous (IV) therapy is the most common invasive therapy in modern medicine, with around 3.8 billion tubes used to perform the procedure each year. The therapy helps those who can’t get core nutrients from their food, assisting patients for conditions such as cancer, Crohn's and bowel disease. According to research around 10 per cent of [...]