Focus:
Digital Therapeutics
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3 April 2020 News
Babylon Health launches Covid-19 symptom tracker
Digital healthcare app Babylon has launched a new service designed to assist patients with checking health symptoms that may be associated with Covid-19.
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26 March 2020 News
Medopad offers Covid-specific remote patient monitoring
British healthtech company Medopad is offering support to the global healthcare sector by providing clinicians with a specialised Covid-19 version of its remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform. The technology will...
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12 March 2020 Analysis
From ECT to tDCS: how can brain stimulation treat mental illness?
First-line treatment for mental health conditions like depression and anxiety typically involves a combination of pharmaceutical interventions and talking therapies, but patients can struggle to tolerate drugs and therapy can...
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2 March 2020 News
Smart device introduced to manage in-flight medical events
Aberdeen University spinout MIME Technologies has unveiled a smart device called Aiber, which could completely alter how medical emergencies are managed on flights.
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13 February 2020 Analysis
Empowerment vs deceit: the darker side of digital health communities
Chronic illness support communities crop up all over social media and provide a way for people all over the world to connect and support each other in managing their conditions....
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11 February 2020 News
New analysis raises concerns over accuracy of skin cancer risk apps
An evaluation of the accuracy of smartphone apps that claim to risk-stratify moles and skin lesions has found that they are poorly regulated and often cannot be trusted to produce...
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11 February 2020 Analysis
Health screening: the need for a more proactive approach
In October 2019 the Independent Review of Adult Screening Programmes in England released its full report, praising the NHS’s adult screening programmes, but noting that uptake of screening services is...
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7 February 2020 News
Mobile phone laboratory could help diagnose coronavirus
Engineers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have created a credit card-sized portable lab that can plug into a mobile phone and diagnose infectious diseases including coronavirus, malaria, HIV or...
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23 January 2020 Analysis
No filter: understanding how medicines impact dehydration
Computer models of a kidney developed at the University of Waterloo could tell us more about the impacts of medicines taken by people prone to dehydration. Natalie Healey finds out...
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23 January 2020 News
British Heart Foundation reveals shortlist for £30m research prize
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) today announced its shortlist of four research projects competing for a £30m reward as part of its Big Beat Challenge.