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Exclusive: General Catalyst-backed Blackwell Security garners $13M

  • May 7, 2024
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Healthcare-focused cybersecurity company Blackwell Security has secured $13 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst and Rally Ventures.  The company, which is a co-creation from General Catalyst and Rally Ventures, also hired Geyer Jones as its first chief executive officer. Jones previously served as chief operating officer at healthcare IoT security company Cylera and […]

Clanwilliam launches new practice management system iMedDoc into the UK

  • May 7, 2024
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Clanwilliam is launching iMedDoc, a cloud-based, mobile-centric, practice management solution for private practice, in the UK. Clanwilliam is already a leading provider of software to the independent healthcare sector in the UK, as the supplier of market leader DGL Practice Manager, which was developed for large private practices, hospitals and hospital teams and currently serves […]

Health Technologies

Microscopic heart vessels imaged in super-resolution for first time

  • May 7, 2024
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Researchers at Imperial College London’s Department of Bioengineering and Faculty of Medicine and from University College London (UCL) have used a new imaging technique that has produced sub-millimetre resolution images of microscopic heart vessels for the first time. The researchers say that the non-invasive new imaging technique, tested on four human patients, could improve the […]

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The Conjoined Twins Who Refused to Be ‘Fixed’

  • May 7, 2024
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When George Schappell came out as transgender in 2007, he joined a population at the center of medical and ethical controversy. Schappell was used to this. He had been born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1961 with the left side of his face, some of his skull, and a portion of his brain conjoined with […]

Health Technologies

Listen: Could natural testosterone supplements beat the ‘male menopause’?

  • May 7, 2024
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Driven by her own ‘couple pause’ where she experienced peri menopausal symptoms and her husband experienced loss of energy and found out he had low testosterone, Roberta Stringer, a naturopathic nutritionist, developed natural hormonal health company DNA. It is the first natural testosterone wellbeing company with a range of pioneering supplements that help men – and women – […]

How the EU AI Act will transform health tech leadership

  • May 7, 2024
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Odgers Berndtson’s Mike Drew and Chris Hamilton, discuss the impact of the EU AI Act on health tech leadership Healthcare is poised to undergo profound transformation by AI, arguably more than any other industry. Already used in an array of applications, from diagnostic tools to patient monitoring and personalised medicine, the AI revolution will only accelerate a […]

Health Technologies

Frequently need to pee? App-based therapy can help, finds research – Digital Health Technology News

  • May 7, 2024
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Combining pelvic floor exercises with behavioral therapy could be more effective than current medical treatments at helping men with frequent urges to urinate, new research in men has found. The initial results from the Bladder Emptying Disorder Therapy (BEST) Trial are presented today [Monday 8 April 2024] at the European Association of Urology Congress in […]

Interview: “What’s come out in all of the research that I’ve done is the convenience factor” Helen Atherton, professor of primary care research at the University of Southampton – htn

  • May 7, 2024
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We recently caught up with Helen Atherton, professor in primary care research at the University of Southampton, to talk about her research findings and insights into digital in primary care. Helen first shared with us a brief introduction to her role and how she first got into research in the primary care field, sharing that […]

ICBs to pilot new ways of optimising primary care and further deliver on the Fuller Stocktake vision – htn

  • May 7, 2024
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A letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, national director of primary care and community services at NHS England, and Ed Garratt, chief executive of NHS Suffolk and North Essex ICB to integrated care boards, proposes plans to test new ways of working to ‘optimise the general practice operating model’ across urgent and proactive care services and further […]