Staff at Leeds Cancer Centre are celebrating the official opening of a new MRI Simulator which is set to revolutionise radiotherapy treatment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The high-definition, high-contrast images produced by MR Sim will enable patients to receive more precise, targeted treatments while reducing the risk of treatment related side-effects. The new […]
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHFT) has gone live with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA), as the next step in the trust’s five-year digital transformation journey. The Altera Digital Health solution was introduced as part of the trust’s Sunrise™ electronic patient record (EPR), also provided by Altera Digital Health. As of February 2023, the […]
America is facing a mental health crisis Bernie Sanders Young people are grappling with challenges that no generation in modern history has been forced to deal with. They need our help now This country faces a longstanding mental health crisis, exacerbated by the isolation, fears and uncertainties of the pandemic. This crisis affects all generations, […]
John Burt is CEO of Medherant – a West Midlands-based company developing innovative treatments using transdermal drug delivery technology. Formerly CEO of Abzena and Thiakis, John has many years’ experience of working with development stage companies. Health Tech World sat down with John to learn about Medherant’s innovative TEPI Patch and its potential applications in […]
The Theatres department at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) is benefitting from the purchase of two additional ultrasound scanners thanks to their Friends. The League of Friends have funded two new portable ultrasound scanners which will be used extensively by anaesthetists at the Oswestry-based hospital. The purchase of the specialist scanners […]
Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were skeptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence. In his “Natural History,” Pliny the […]
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