The White House on Wednesday designated a common animal tranquilizer that is increasingly mixed into street fentanyl as an “emerging drug threat,” a formal move that requires the administration to create strategies to enhance law enforcement efforts, health interventions and data collection to combat it. This is the first time that the White House’s Office […]
The discovery, hailed as “a major step towards Alzheimer’s prevention” was first made at the University of Oxford, but has now been confirmed by research groups in Holland, Sweden and China. Headed by Professor David Smith, former Chair of Pharmacology and Deputy Head of the Division of Medical Sciences at Oxford and director of the Oxford […]
The EPA has announced expected new emissions rules today that will save Americans trillions of dollars in health and fuel costs, avoid nearly 10 billion tons of emissions, and which the EPA projects will result in an EV market share of about 60% by 2030 and 67% by 2032. The rules are an improvement from […]
With increasing digital transformation, hospitals around the world are becoming more reliant on their Wide Area Networks (WANs). They are needed for sharing electronic medical records, MRI scans, working collaborative on medical research projects, and so on. The trouble is that WANs can be inhibited by latency and packet loss, reducing bandwidth utilisation. The most […]
Forming part of the Digital Health and Care Wales digital medicines transformation portfolio the innovation fund aims to support health tech suppliers and NHS organisation deliver an electronic prescription service (EPS) and integrate with the NHS Wales app. Just over £110,000 is available per supplier in total, across three areas: To develop and implement the changes […]
The Scottish Government’s £42 million Techscaler programme has been extended to support innovators in trialling their solutions with NHS test bed sites. In July 2022, seven tech scaler hubs were announced to support start-ups in Aberdeen, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Stirling. The programme is now extending to provide the innovative companies involved with access to […]
A series of new measures will be introduced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) with support from partners to make it faster and easier to gain approval and to run clinical trials in the UK. These changes represent the biggest overhaul in UK clinical trials regulation in over 20 years and will help to make the […]
Solar was the fastest-growing source of electricity for the 18th consecutive year, the report said, rising by 24% year-on-year and adding enough power to meet the annual electricity demand of South Africa. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Record growth in wind and solar last year pushed worldwide electricity generation to its cleanest-ever […]
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Wind and solar reached a record 12% of global electricity in 2022, up from 10% in 2021, according to a report launched today by energy think tank Ember – and experts predict that power sector emissions have peaked. Ember’s fourth annual Global Electricity Review presents electricity data from 2022 across 78 countries, representing 93% of […]
