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Mindgruve has announced a new partnership with Kick It in the US to launch a gamified app aimed at helping users quick smoking. The collaboration focuses on a complete redesign of the app formerly known as NoButts and NoVape, now rebranded as the Kick It app, tailored to aid users in their journey to quit [...]
YouTube has launched new intiatives, including AI-enabled multi-language dubbing tools and a programme for supporting health professionals creating content highlighting underrepresented communities. YouTube, the popular video platform owned by Google, has unveiled two initiatives aimed at supporting healthcare content creators. These include AI-enabled Aloud, which offers multi-language dubbing for videos, and the expansion of the [...]
AspyreRx is the first FDA-authorised digital behavioural therapeutic device delivering cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of a cardiometabolic disease. Better Therapeutics has launched AspyreRx, the first cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app to receive U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorisation as a Class II device to treat adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D). AspyreRx [...]
Health Tech World talks to Wesper CEO Amir Reuveny about how the innovative technology is transforming sleep tracking and improving the diagnosis and management of sleep apnea. What is Wesper and what do you hope to achieve with the technology? Wesper is the most comprehensive sleep diagnostic management platform on market today. We help providers [...]
Researchers in the US have announced plans to create a portable, biologically based ‘bio-nose’ capable of identifying odours in the built environment. The research is backed by a four-year, $2 million (£1.6 million) grant from the National Science Foundation. Project leader Elisabeth Smela, a UMD professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland, said: [...]
Private e-prescription app and delivery services company Pharmacierge, has announced its forthcoming expansion within the heart of London’s healthcare district. The expansion includes an extensive new 5,500 sq ft dispensary equipped with a 30ft dispensing robot, both the largest of their kind in the Harley Street Medical Area (HSMA). Pharmacierge is backed by 80 private [...]
By Future Planet Capital Executive Chairman, Douglas Hansen-Luke
Precisia Life Sciences has been formally launched by UK-headquartered healthcare technology provider C2-Ai. Precisia is already in discussion with medicines developers, to create new partnerships with healthcare providers and to explore the potential to help develop more inclusive medicines strategies based on a new understanding of clinical risks in populations and under-served groups of patients. [...]
Diagnosed at home: Accurate flu testing kits launched by UK doctor service The flu and COVID-19 testing kits are said to provide almost immediate and accurate diagnoses for patients, freeing up doctors and allowing patients to be diagnosed at home. Rapid flu and COVID-19 combo test kits have been launched as part of a visiting [...]
A specialist prosthetics and orthotics company has announced the opening of its first ever, satellite outpatient clinic based in the north of England. Sheffield-based STEPS Prosthetics has launched the clinic at Neural Pathways in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear - where it already works in partnership with STEPS Rehabilitation. The move has meant that the company [...]
