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![Cashing in on fertility: should femtech receive more scrutiny?]()
Cashing in on fertility: should femtech receive more scrutiny?
Femtech is awash with new apps, monitors and devices claiming to increase the user’s chances of having a baby by tracking their fertile window with pinpoint accuracy. While increased ovulatory...
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![Pearse Keane Q&A: how open access AI is bringing ophthalmology into focus]()
Pearse Keane Q&A: how open access AI is bringing ophthalmology into focus
Ophthalmic research is one of the areas of medicine which stands to benefit most from the AI revolution. In an interview from New Scientist Live 2019, Moorfields Eye Hospital ophthalmologist...
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![Future diabetes care: deep brain stimulation and implanted insulin]()
Future diabetes care: deep brain stimulation and implanted insulin
Diabetes is a common condition which can be easily managed, but monitoring insulin intake can still be a constant hassle. Now, French start-up Diabeloop has developed a system which combines...
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![Making electronic health records work]()
Making electronic health records work
Electronic health records are now part of everyday healthcare, but few would claim they have reached their full potential, and for doctors, they have added an extra layer of administrative...
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![Telemedicine in nursing homes: it’s easier said than done]()
Telemedicine in nursing homes: it’s easier said than done
Telehealth in nursing homes could save the NHS and the adult social care sector billions, but its implementation across the industry has been slow- to-non-existent. The technology could save healthcare...
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![The age of the autonomous pharmacy]()
The age of the autonomous pharmacy
Omnicell UK recently launched its vision for the ‘Autonomous Pharmacy’, a future where medication is managed digitally in cloud-based, AI powered systems, freeing pharmacists from administrative tasks in order to...
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![September’s top news stories]()
September’s top news stories
World-first cardio trial showed reduced wait times and hospital admissions and Orchestra gets CE-Mark for Moderato system to treat hypertension. Medicaldevice-network.com wraps up key headlines from September 2019.
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![Destroying tumors with next generation ablation]()
Destroying tumors with next generation ablation
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) can destroy solid tumours without the need for invasive surgery. At the forefront are NHS Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital spin-out company Ablatus Therapeutics who explain how...
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![IDTechEX Healthcare Sensors Innovation 2019: the future of medical data]()
IDTechEX Healthcare Sensors Innovation 2019: the future of medical data
At IDTechEx’s recent healthcare sensors conference, speakers from across the industry gathered to discuss the potential reach of sensing technologies and their implications for patient data. Chloe Kent pulls together...
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![Ready player one: booting up the prescription video game]()
Ready player one: booting up the prescription video game
Akili Interactive is developing a range of ‘prescription video games’ that combine specialised algorithms with cutting-edge gaming tech to improve cognitive function in various patient groups with neurological disorders. How...
