People walk past graffiti depicting a Houthi fighter stopping an Israeli ship off the coast of Yemen, painted on a wall of the Saudi embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Feb. 15, 2024. Khaled Abdullah | Reuters Oil prices have rallied to five-month highs and are on pace for a weekly gain as tensions boil in […]
Another major blow to California-based startup Fisker, as tens of thousands of customers reportedly have canceled their EV reservations to date – which is some serious bad buzz amid a tumultuous time as the company scrambles for funding to stay alive. Leaked data obtained by Business Insider states that to date Fisker customers have canceled […]
Anyone who watched the recent BBC series The Dropout about the Theranos scandal cannot fail to realise that trying to circumvent medical device regulations can only end in disaster. The medical device sector is one of the world’s most highly regulated and rightly so. You cannot gamble with patient’s health. Get it wrong and the […]
As the new chair of the health and social care council at techUK, Shane Tickell talked to Highland Marketing about his determination to support small and innovative companies, by having some frank conversations with the NHS and the health tech industry about strategy and commercials. Shane Tickell has been working in the health tech industry […]
The Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership is supporting a new campaign to encourage people over the age of 40 to get a free blood pressure check at their local pharmacy. High blood pressure, or hypertension, rarely has noticeable symptoms. But if untreated, it increases the risk of serious problems such as heart […]
South Korean medical AI company Lunit has recently secured deals with hospitals in Europe, where the medical device market – the second largest after the North American market – is worth $155 billion. It won the contract to supply a lung disease screening solution to TeleDiag, the largest teleradiology group in France. Lunit was also chosen to provide a […]
We recently had the opportunity to interview Deborah El-Sayed, director of transformation and chief digital information officer at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) ICB. We asked Deborah some questions about her role, current and past projects, and her insights from a career which has spanned local, regional and national levels. We started our […]
What are some of the health tech stories to catch our eye recently from across the NHS? Let’s take a look in our latest news in brief. NHS Dorset seeks volunteers for Digital Public Engagement Group NHS Dorset has shared that it is on the lookout for volunteers to join its Digital Public Engagement Group, […]
Understanding How AI Can Impact Health Outcomes The ability to train incoming healthcare workers to embrace and interrogate this new technology will better determine its influence and how it can be used in a positive way to promote health outcomes, says Dr. Aditee Narayan, associate dean for curricular affairs at Duke University School of Medicine. […]
Photo: Toyota Toyota has made its fully electric 2024 bZ4X – which only just landed on dealers’ lots – available to lease with a $10,000 discount. Toyota’s 2024 bZ4X lease deal Toyota released prices and specs of the 2024 bZ4X in January, and it hasn’t even been available at dealerships that long. But CarsDirect reports […]
