Photo: California Highway Patrol Two Bay Area families are suing Tesla over the death of their 19-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son after a crash which left them and one other teenager dead, trapped inside the vehicle due to what the lawsuit alleges is poor door handle design. The lawsuit traces back to a 2024 crash […]
Charging an electric vehicle. Tashdique Mehtaj Ahmed | Moment | Getty Images The price of used electric vehicles has come down to levels comparable with gasoline cars, a dynamic poised to boost their popularity despite the loss of a federal tax incentive for EVs, according to auto analysts. In August, the price premium for used […]
Ask most pediatricians about the finances of vaccines, and they’ll tell you that vaccines are not a big moneymaker. Providing them might generate some profit, but generally, “the margin you make is exceptionally small,” Robert Lillard, the medical director of the Cumberland Pediatric Foundation, told me. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., without citing specific […]
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) has achieved a significant milestone in its digital transformation journey, saving more than 2,000 clinical hours by introducing LapSafe® smart lockers to automate IT equipment delivery and support. Serving over 155,000 patients annually across 128 sites, the Trust covers a large geographical area, making efficient IT […]
As our diagnostic categories expand to include ever milder versions of disease, researchers propose that the act of naming a malady can itself bring relief.
An AI-powered hearing test is reliably able to check your hearing on a computer or smart phone without clinical supervision according to a study The high-tech hearing tests, they say, can efficiently understand human speech from the comfort of your own home, rather than at a hospital clinic, by using AI to screen out background […]
Jan Thomas, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care Board, has been appointed as the Chief Executive of the ‘Central East’ Integrated Care Board (ICB) cluster. The cluster includes Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes. Jan has extensive leadership experience of managing complex health systems, strategic commissioning, and driving transformation across […]
An aerial view of Chevron crews attempting to extinguish a large fire and explosion that occurred at Chevron Refinery in El Segundo Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images A huge fire broke out on Thursday night at a Chevron oil refinery in California, one of the largest […]
An innovative technology developed by researchers in the UK has received over £475,000 in funding to revolutionise how eczema is diagnosed and treated, potentially ending years of suffering for millions of patients across the UK. The innovative vibroacoustic sensor, which measures material changes in each layer of skin using small vibrations on the surface, has […]
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the Epic electronic patient record system this week. In a LinkedIn post, David Grannell, associate director digital at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS, counted down the hours to the trust’s Epic EPR launch, following “four years of working with the most amazing […]
