The South Carolina governor, Henry McMaster, said he would hold a ceremonial bill signing next week. Photograph: Jeffrey Collins/AP View image in fullscreen The South Carolina governor, Henry McMaster, said he would hold a ceremonial bill signing next week. Photograph: Jeffrey Collins/AP South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for minors State […]
A world-first minimally invasive brain pacemaker is now available on the NHS for drug-resistant epilepsy patients across the UK. Over 600,000 people in the UK have focal epilepsy. Although most patients take at least one drug to treat the symptoms, around 30 per cent of epilepsy patients are drug resistant, meaning they continue to suffer […]
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a proposed framework for international recognition of medical devices to ensure access to MedTech innovations. The MHRA’s statement of policy intent describes how the UK Government intends to recognise regulatory approvals from Australia, Canada, the European Union and the United States of America, depending on […]
Photo: ChargePoint Airbnb and ChargePoint have partnered to help homestay hosts install EV chargers in the US in the face of growing demand. Airbnb reports that searches using its EV charger filter grew more than 80% from 2022 to 2023. Airbnb and ChargePoint will provide US hosts with discounts on home EV chargers and installation […]
The Irish Department of Health has published Ireland’s digital health framework for 2024 – 2030, setting out a roadmap for digital transformation across the nation’s health services covering the roll-out of a shared care record, the deployment of electronic health records (EHRs), a new patient app, and more. A “key goal” of the new framework […]
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has awarded a contract for a framework agreement around the “provision of digital health advisory and related goods and services for healthcare”. The framework is set to cover specialist clinical and healthcare digital consultancy; clinical and digital health delivery and augmentation; clinical data science and population health analytics; and digital […]
The correlation between spending time in nature and improved health is increasingly gaining recognition, substantiated by robust scientific evidence. The benefits of engaging with the natural world extend far beyond mere enjoyment of the outdoors, impacting both your physical fitness and psychological health in substantial ways. These are the fantastic health benefits you could gain […]
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, working with Health Innovation North West Coast, is preparing to launch a tender for a new telehealth platform, with the aim of procuring a flexible system capable of connecting with “more existing and future applications and hardware – such as novel remote monitoring equipment or consumer devices that haven’t yet been […]
A major shift for diagnostic imaging into public cloud has begun in the NHS. But how can imaging networks and healthcare providers ensure suppliers are able to deliver on such important, large and complex projects? Chris Scarisbrick, deputy managing director for Sectra, explores. The largest public cloud projects to ever take place within the NHS […]
How to get Ozempic” and similar questions are the most asked, with almost 50,000 average monthly searches in the United States. Queries on how the medication works and what it does come in second. Other common curiosities concern the price of Ozempic and how to get it prescribed for weight loss purposes. A new study […]
