U.S. crude oil rose to $73 per barrel on Thursday after erasing most of its gains for the year as soft demand in China and worries about the U.S. economy weighed on the market. The U.S. benchmark is now up about 2% for the year, while global benchmark Brent crude has erased virtually all of […]
A new study challenges the belief that weight loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy or Monjaro work just by promoting satiety and making you eat less. The new trial enrolled with 30 patients and examined the family of medications based on the hormone Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). The findings show that there is a strong relationship […]
Ireland-based global healthcare technology company Medtronic has reported an adjusted $8 billion of revenue in Q1 of fiscal year 2025 (FY25), which ended July 26, 2024. Medtronic reported Q1 worldwide revenue of $7.915 billion and adjusted revenue of $8.004 billion, an increase of 2.8% as reported and 5.3% on an organic basis. The company has […]
NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) and Alzheimer’s Society have partnered to develop the Dementia Innovators programme, a pilot designed to explore ideas with the potential to support dementia care from professionals inside and outside the NHS. Health and social care staff taking part in the programme will receive learning opportunities such as webinars and workshops […]
Listen–1.0x+ Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general of the United States, used to spend his time focused on the traditional issues of the nation’s doctor. He led campaigns and authored reports to promote physical activity, limit adolescents’ vaping, and improve treatment for alcohol and drug […]
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has developed a framework agreement focusing on insourcing of clinical services, designed to offer a “compliant route” for NHS trusts to source and procure services at their own site, supporting the NHS in securing extra clinical capacity to meet increased demand and enabling trusts to retain capacity planning in-house. Through […]
One person felt a sensation of “slowly floating into the air” as images flashed around. Another recalled “the most profound sense of love and peace,” unlike anything experienced before. Consciousness became a “foreign entity” to another whose “whole sense of reality disappeared.” These were some of the firsthand accounts shared in a small survey of […]
The CIPHA (Combined Intelligence for Population Health Action) programme has welcomed the Tony Blair Institute paper ‘Preparing the NHS for the AI Era: A Digital Health Record for Every Citizen,’ which was published today. According to TBI, a Digital Health Record (DHR) for every citizen is a critical part of NHS reform. It would give patients […]
Smoking rates among mums-to-be in England are at an all-time low, new figures have revealed. This year also saw the biggest annual fall in smoking during pregnancy since records began, meaning 6,000 fewer pregnant women smoked when compared to the previous 12 months, protecting thousands of babies from potential harm. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust have […]
Following on from our recent panel discussion exploring whether the reality of AI can live up to current hype and how bias in healthcare data can be managed, we posed two follow-up questions to our audience to discern views around AI concerns and perspectives on barriers to responsible AI. Firstly, we asked LinkedIn followers for […]
