U.S. crude oil rebounded more than 2% on Wednesday, regaining some ground after prices closed at the lowest level in nearly three years in the previous session. “Crude Oil has rallied back aggressively,” Bob Yawger, executive director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities, told clients in a note. Yawger said the rally could be due […]
Changes in people’s voices recoded on a smartphone can signal a serious flare up in symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, is a serious and long-term lung condition. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COPD is the third leading cause of death worldwide. A flare-up in […]
Doors will open to the new £40 million redevelopment of West Cumberland Hospital later this month. The first patients are set to move into the new area from the 23rd of September. The planned moves will happen over the course of a week, moving patients and staff from the old to the new and vastly […]
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has published its Digital Health Roadmap, setting out a vision to create better health outcomes through a digitally enabled environment around six core principles: the patient as an empowered partner; workforce and workplace; digitally enabled and connected care; data-driven services; digital health ecosystem and innovation; and secure foundations and digital […]
National running events like the London Marathon and Great North Run inspire thousands of armchair viewers to get healthy, including taking up running with the NHS couch to 5K, according to new figures released by the NHS. Visits to the NHS couch to 5K webpage are expected to rise significantly this weekend as the Great […]
A recent HTN Now panel discussion focused on the question of how health and care can tackle interoperability, with HTN joined by Kate Warriner (chief transformation and digital officer at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust); Chris Johnson (chief medical information officer at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust); and John Kosobucki (CEO and founder of […]
The ‘first modern hospice’ will benefit from expert medicines review and audit to support its commitment to word-class palliative and end of life care St Christopher’s Hospice has chosen Ashtons to provide it with medicines and pharmacy services in support of its commitment to offer world class palliative and end of life care to everyone […]
National support programme Accelerating FemTech has opened for applications, with the aim of providing early-stage companies and innovators focused on women’s health with commercial and funding support. Accelerating FemTech is run by Health Innovation Network South London and wider UK partners and offers a ten-week programme to 20 innovators in this space, including workshops, mentoring […]
