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 […]
On today’s spectacular episode of Quick Charge, we bust the myth of slowing EV sales by teaching journalists how to do math. We also check out the new, $50,000 mainstream Lucid and break the news to California that they’re not #1 anymore. We also mark Greenlane’s groundbreaking (literally!) flagship EV charging station for big trucks, and talk […]
Stand With Crypto’s bus tour through five battleground states kicked off last week in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Logan Dobson/Stand With Crypto Alliance A big purple bus adorned with “AMERICA ❤️ CRYPTO” started making its way across five swing states last week, on a mission to get out the vote ahead of the presidential election. […]
As presidential nominees Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump prepare to face off in their first debate Tuesday night, voters will be tuning in for clarity on their plans to handle issues including the economy, inflation and job growth. One sector that faces particular uncertainty after the election is clean energy, which […]
