Last Thanksgiving, Cynthia Mosson had been on her feet all day in her kitchen in Frankfort, Ind., preparing dinner for nine. She was nearly finished — the ham in the oven, the dressing made — when she suddenly felt the need to sit down. “I started hurting in my left shoulder,” said Ms. Mosson, 61. […]
When I first coined the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column nearly three years ago, this was precisely the type of thing I had in mind. Searching for all of the coolest and wildest electric vehicles from China’s largest online shopping site has finally landed me on the one I think I […]
The new £3.4m heart centre based at the Cumberland Infirmary is very nearly complete and we have been for a sneak peek inside. The team will start treating patients in the new state of the art labs next week and the whole team are very pleased with the new space. Dr Justin Barclay, clinical director […]
Quibim, the company pioneering the use of imaging biomarkers for precision medicine, can reveal it has added an industry-leading cancer detection capability to its prostate tool based on AI, QP-Prostate. The updated product, which uses algorithms trained on actual pathology data as ground truth, has been given a CE mark for the European Union and […]
Despite the huge and varied advances in medical research, traditional randomised clinical trials remain a widely accepted and effective method of ensuring the efficacy and safety of new medicines and treatments. Randomised clinical trials need to prove the general efficacy of a new treatment or medication, but often also whether it will benefit a specific […]
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) has been successfully accredited as an elective surgical hub delivering high standards in clinical and operational practice. The scheme, run by NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, assesses hubs against a framework of […]
