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A health tech firm whose mission is to advance "inclusive precision medicine" has launched a new division to help drive more clinical trials in Africa. 54gene's new clinical programme services (CPS) division aims to provide end-to-end clinical development services, intelligence, logistics, and infrastructure to enable successful conduct of clinical trials in Africa, starting in of Nigeria. [...]
Brain injury recovery involves a small army of professionals, spanning different environments and specialisms. Among them are the doctors, physios, neuropsychologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists; and case managers who help coordinate this collective effort. Standing on the sidelines, meanwhile, are the individual’s loved ones; those who knew the original version of a person, willing the [...]
Many patients with pancreatic cancer have only about a 10% chance of survival within five years of their diagnosis because they tend to become resistant to chemotherapy, past studies have indicated. A "time machine" that Purdue University engineers designed to observe pancreatic cancer behavior over time suggests a new drug testing approach that could help [...]
Mobile smartphone technology can accelerate first responder dispatch and may be instrumental to improving out of hospital cardiac arrest (OCHA) survival. That is the conclusion of a study published in the October 2020 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). The lead author of the study [...]
Researchers have developed an improved human-skin equivalent that reproduces traction-force balance in the lateral direction, a property that controls the structure and physiological function of skin. This artificial skin, developed by reseaerchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), will enhance in-depth analyses of physiological skin functions, provide solutions to skin problems caused by diseases [...]
Both cancer patients and their medical teams found it beneficial when patients shared their symptoms in real time using a web- or telephone-based reporting system, according to a national multi-institutional study. Researchers conducted a cluster-randomised controlled study at 52 community-based oncology practices across the US. Half of the practices were assigned to use ePROs as [...]
NHS trusts are being offered an app aimed at reducing serious harm and hundreds of deaths that are linked to two deadly hospital-acquired conditions - acute kidney injury (AKI) and pneumonia (HAP). Known as Compass, the mobile app provides NHS clinical staff with a tool for accurately assessing every individual patient’s risk of developing the [...]
With the expansion of year’s annual flu vaccination programme, and the need to vaccine larger numbers of patients whilst minimising time and contact with patients, Substrakt Health has worked directly with one of its CCG clients to produce a new app which automates the patient administration for vaccinations. As a result, the time taken to [...]
New data suggests that the number of people using digital therapeutics and wellness apps will grow from 627 million in 2020 to more than 1.4 billion in 2025; after regulators responded to COVID-19 by loosening rules that had previously hindered the work of digital therapeutics developers. The study also revealed that by 2021, over 44 [...]
David Spencer-Percival, serial entrepreneur and founder of two globally successful recruitment businesses, Huntress and Spencer Ogden, is launching his latest venture, Life Science People. With a personal investment of £2m and an initial team of 20, Spencer-Percival’s team have set their sights set on ambitious growth, with plans to have a London office of 100 [...]
