Digital health coaching platform Holly Health has secured £650k in an investment and grant funding round, including £323k funding from Innovate UK, as part of the Future Economy Investor Partnerships scheme. The round sees participation from UK and international investors, including the Innovation SuperNetwork, Plug and Play Ventures and Modality Partnership, emphasising a shared commitment […]
NHS waiting lists could top eight million by next summer, with chronic staff shortages and a lack of funding suggested to be the main drivers, according to new data from the Health Foundation Charity. With an already record number of people on the hospital waiting list, as the winter months draw closer, long waits for emergency care are […]
Milton Keynes University Hospital has this week announced that it is launching a collaboration with Milton Keynes City Council, EXI, Apple and Loughborough University, with a view to help tackle diabetes through use of technology and financial incentives. The aim of the Milton Keynes Activity Reward Programme is to encourage people with type 2 diabetes […]
A pilot project from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust which saw portable ECG devices used to monitor community patients on certain antipsychotic medications during the pandemic, has helped to inform to national guidance around ECGs. Through the pilot project, which spanned three months, patients could place the device on their knee and send […]
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, has shared that their ‘pill school’ – designed to help children and young people move from liquid medication to tablets – has been made available virtually, with staff praising how the virtual offering means that young people accessing services remotely can […]
Bloomberg/Contributor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Australia’s Santos jumped to a five-week high on Friday on news the company is in talks to merge with Woodside Energy. Santos and Woodside Energy, two of Australia’s largest oil and gas producers, have opened talks to discuss a potential merger in what could create an 80 […]
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House Republicans have once again attempted to pass a law that will increase emissions and cost Americans trillions of dollars in additional fuel and health costs. The bill in question is called H.R.4468, the “CARS” act. It was introduced by Representatives Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA). It passed the House on Wednesday by […]
The new 2024 Hyundai Kona EV is surprisingly affordable to lease in some places. It may even be cheaper to lease than the gas version or 2023 model, with its first lease prices as low as $259 per month. With Hyundai’s US EV sales tripling in November over last year, the brand says it’s seeing […]
A study done by Google Research in collaboration with Google DeepMind reveals the tech giant developed an LLM with conversational and collaborative capabilities that can provide an accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) and help improve clinicians’ diagnostic reasoning and accuracy in diagnosing complex medical conditions. The LLM for DDx builds upon Med-PaLM 2, the company’s generative […]
