Royal Brompton Hospital will use the first MRI of its kind in the UK to help identify new ways to assess the risk of heart disease, enabling earlier treatment and prevention. The unprecedented gradient strength of the MAGNETOM Cima.X from Siemens Healthineers enables novel heart scanning techniques using diffusion-weighted imaging. Research at the hospital will […]

NHS England’s board met last week to discuss data insights into the health system’s performance, the implications for digital with regards to the financial state of the NHS, how technology relates to productivity, and more. Key statistics were shared at the board meeting, including a largely consistent rate of A&E patients admitted, transferred or discharged […]

Researchers in the US have developed a model that rapidly converts stem cells to brain cells with protein structures characteristic of Parkinson’s disease (PD), enabling the study of the condition’s unique and highly variable disease pathology in a petri dish. The study details how the model can one day be used to develop personalised diagnostic […]