A woman holds a smartphone with the USD Coin logo displayed on the screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a little more than a year after terminating a […]
The number of people facing possible starvation in the Gaza Strip in the coming weeks is the largest share of a population at risk of famine identified anywhere since a United Nations-affiliated panel created the current global food-insecurity assessment 20 years ago. After Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, Israel responded with air […]
By exploiting the technology used in Covid-19 vaccines, scientists have created an effective therapy for a rare disease, demonstrating the technology’s potential therapeutic use in humans. The research, published in journal Science Translational Medicine, found that messenger RNA (mRNA) could be used to correct a rare liver genetic disease known as argininosuccinic aciduria in a […]
What the research shows A research team analyzed records of nearly a million women in Sweden’s national medical registries from 2001 through 2017, comparing 86,551 women who had perinatal depression with 865,510 women who did not. The groups were matched by age and year they gave birth. In two studies, the team found that depression […]
When the State Hospital sought to modernise its medication prescription and administration processes, they turned to ReStart for assistance. Together, they successfully integrated the Trust Integration Engine (TIE) with the Hospital Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration (HEPMA) system. In the Central belt of Scotland, The State Hospital embarked on a journey to modernise its psychiatric […]
CHEC, one of the UK’s leading providers of community healthcare, is ready to welcome its first NHS patients after officially opening the doors at its Pitfield Lane site in Milton Keynes. The conveniently located facility will help reduce NHS waiting times and increase patient choice by providing access to ophthalmology and gastroenterology services in the […]
To meet exponentially rising demand for world-class patient care, hospital groups in the UAE and wider Gulf region now need to recruit more international health workers than ever before. To support this need, Medacs Healthcare, one of the world’s largest clinical staffing groups, is investing locally, with a new team and office in Dubai. With […]
People participate in a roundtable discussion calling on the Biden administration to take action on medical debt in Washington DC on 13 September 2023. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Community Catalyst People participate in a roundtable discussion calling on the Biden administration to take action on medical debt in Washington DC on 13 September 2023. […]
New UK-led research has revealed why rapid-acting antidepressants such as ketamine and the psychedelic drug psilocybin have an immediate and lasting positive effect on mood in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). The research, led by the University of Bristol, found that psilocybin, ketamine and scopolamine can modulate affective biases associated with learning and memory. […]
Combining health data with whole genome sequence (WGS) data in patients with cancer can help doctors provide more tailored care for their patients, a new study has revealed. The research, published today in the journal Nature Medicine, shows that linking WGS data to real-world clinical data can identify changes in cancer DNA that may be […]
