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Iceland’s first billion-dollar ‘unicorn’ – which harnesses fish skin to treat wounds and burns – is now aiming to help women recovering from mastectomies. Kerecis has disrupted the global market for wound, burn and trauma treatment in the last decade, thanks to a biproduct of one of Iceland’s biggest exports. It utilises North-Atlantic cod skins [...]
UCLA researchers have devised a way to produce chemicals used in medicine for a fraction of the usual cost. Drugs to treat cancer are generally very expensive to produce, but new research by UCLA chemists could lead to the price of drug treatments for cancer and other serious illnesses may soon plummet. One chemical used [...]
Kristin Jacobson succeeds Oved Amitay, who served as President and CEO from June 2020 to October 2023. Solve, a national non-profit organisation leading research and advocacy for post-infection diseases has announced the appointment of Kristin Jacobson as its new president and CEO. A passionate patient advocacy leader and a member of Solve's board of directors, [...]
Medical negligence claims are a surprisingly common occurrence, with many patients believing that they’ve been let down by the healthcare system. The price of these claims puts strain on the British health care system - and forecasts suggest it’s likely that the cost of medical negligence claims will double 2023. So, how can the medical [...]
As the world becomes more digitalised, we spend worrying amounts of hours staring at our smartphones and computer screens, scrolling endlessly as time passes by. Screen time can have a negative affect on our health, without us even realising. This article will look at how screen time affects our bodies and what the benefits are [...]
The healthcare industry is continuously looking for better ways to do things to ensure best practice is provided to each patient that walks through the doors. Each year, around 16 million patients visit major hospitals in the UK which shows the volume that healthcare professionals are having to deal with. With so many people needing [...]
An inspiring young scientist who invented a tech solution to transform COVID-19 testing has received special recognition from a senior royal. Eloise Wells, molecular geneticist and analyst at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, created a special program to locate positive COVID-19 samples amongst the tens of thousands of swab extracts received daily, amid the first waves [...]
MindFi, the Singapore-based corporate mental health and wellness app, has completed an oversubscribed US$2m seed funding round. The funding will enable the firm to accelerate its AI-driven product development, localise in key markets, and further pursue its vision of “culturally competent” wellness in a region where cultural values such as interpersonal harmony, loss of face, [...]
Brady Smith from 1907 foundation, a charity that funds research for mental health, explains why mental health treatment has progressed so slowly. I married a medical practitioner which 99.9 per cent of the time is a real blessing. She says I’m a bad patient, but it’s in my nature; I like to ask questions. For [...]
A new centre of excellence has been created to boost the UK’s capability to exploit further potential of the ‘game changing’ technology used in COVID-19 vaccines. The National Training Academy for RNA Therapeutics and Vaccines Manufacture will focus on RNA technology, the critical force behind the development of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccinations, and its [...]
