Nearly 1.5 million teenage girls in some of the world’s poorest countries will miss the chance to be protected from cervical cancer because the drugmaker Merck has said it will not be able to deliver millions of promised doses of the HPV vaccine this year. Merck has notified Gavi, the international organization that helps low- […]
The first test designed to help diagnose Long COVID is due to launch in the UK and EU, as a result of a collaboration between health tech companies, PeploBio and IncellDX. Long COVID, a condition characterised by persistent symptoms following a COVID-19 infection, continues to present a significant challenge for both patients and healthcare providers. […]
Jeff Bezos wants to build permanent outposts on the moon and colonize space. Richard Branson wants to make spaceflight as commonplace as air travel. Elon Musk wants to settle on Mars to make humanity multi-planetary. IBX’s Kam Ghaffarian wants to go even further: the stars. “There’s this common denominator of combining altruism, to do something […]
According to a recent post from XPeng chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng, the automaker’s self-driving ADAS navigation-guided pilot (NGP) is being tested on German roads and showing “great promise,” leading the way for an XNGP rollout throughout Europe. XPeng Motors ($XPEV) operates as a growing name in the automotive industry, mostly because of its EVs and expansions […]
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH) has signed a five-year contract with Altera Digital Health to deliver an electronic patient record (EPR) system. To meet NHS England’s target for trusts to have an electronic patient record by March 2026, QVH has purchased Altera Sunrise EPR, which includes Core Clinicals, Order Comms, eObservations, Secure Health […]
File photo showing an oil tanker pass through the Suez Canal, Egypt. Peter Bischoff | Pb Archive | Getty Images Crude oil futures were mixed Thursday after a selloff earlier in the week as traders discounted fears of a war between Israel and Iran that could disrupt crude supplies. The West Texas Intermediate contract for […]
In the fall of 2021, Gabriel Arias felt like his body was “rotting from the inside.” He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer so aggressive that doctors had him hospitalized the day of his biopsy. In cases like his, the ideal treatment is a transplant. Arias’s cancer-prone blood cells needed […]
Staff from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust’s Wellbeing Hub have shared how they collaborated with game makers for the development of a video game following a character experiencing psychosis, in order to achieve “truthful representation” of the condition. The game, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, follows the titular character and “offers players a glimpse into the lived […]
SPARK TSL is acquiring Sentean Group, a Dutch company with a complementary background in hospital entertainment and communication, and bringing its Fusion Bedside platform for clinical and patient apps to the UK. The developments mean SPARK TSL can offer trusts a unique digital platform to accelerate the adoption of innovation and deliver quantifiable improvements in […]
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, a team of scientists called on the World Health Organization to acknowledge that the disease could spread through the air. Initially, the agency rebuffed them, despite growing evidence that coronavirus-laden droplets stuck around in the air, making indoor spaces hotbeds of infection. The researchers responded with a […]
