Updated at 12:05 p.m. ET on June 7, 2024 Our most recent flu pandemic—2009’s H1N1 “swine flu”—was, in absolute terms, a public-health crisis. By scientists’ best estimates, roughly 200,000 to 300,000 people around the world died; countless more fell sick. Kids, younger adults, and pregnant people were hit especially hard. That said, it could have […]
Private fishing boats near offshore petroleum drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Ron Buskirk | Getty Images Crude oil futures Friday posted a third straight weekly loss on worries that demand may be softening even as OPEC+ plans to increase production. U.S. crude oil and global benchmark Brent sold off earlier in the week […]
Photo: Big Bus Tours Global open-top tour bus operator Big Bus Tours has added 40 electric sightseeing buses to its fleet in time for the summer holiday season. Big Bus Tours is introducing 20 brand-new Ankai electric buses in Paris and Vienna and retrofitting 20 buses in London by converting 20 of the existing diesel […]
The Aramco logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Saudi Arabia is set to raise more than $11.2 billion from its secondary public share offering in state-controlled oil giant Aramco, after the stock was priced at the lower end of its expected range. The company on Friday said […]
Researchers in the US are using artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise mosquito surveillance to help combat malaria in Africa. The interdisciplinary team of researchers will explore innovative solutions to target malaria-infected mosquitoes in real-time. The research is being led by University of South Florida researchers Ryan Carney, professor of integrative biology, and Sriram Chellappan, professor in the department […]
Researchers in the US have identified a biological mechanism that could lead to more effective treatments for breast cancer that has metastasised to the brain. By studying the metabolic differences between primary breast cancer cells and those that metastasise to the brain, the researchers, led by a team at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, […]
South Korea OKs new stroke prediction AI software South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has recently approved an AI-based software for predicting the onset of ischemic stroke or cerebral infarction. The NNS-SOT software, developed by researchers from Asan Medical Center and Nunaps, provides an estimated time of onset of cerebral infarction in brain MRI […]
Personify Care, Foxo announce integrated patient management solution Personify Care and Foxo have announced a strategic partnership to combine their technologies for improved patient management. Based on a media release, their integration will allow health services to access Foxo’s enterprise communication technologies within Personify Care’s digital patient pathway platform. Foxo users will also have access […]
Fully motorised C-arm system can be operated in sterile field by remote control Precise and automated positioning for up to 50 per cent faster intraoperative imaging Relief of staff and reduction of idle time in the operating theatre Siemens Healthineers has developed an automated, self-driving C-arm system for intraoperative imaging in surgery. Equipped with holonomic, […]
For our latest interview we caught up with Kate Warriner, chief digital and transformation officer at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust and chief digital and information officer at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. Kate shared insights on current projects and digital priorities across both organisations, around the digital, data and technology workforce, patient engagement, data […]
