1+ week, 5+ day ago   (839+ words) Healthcare Today Ameera Patel, chief executive of TidalSense, writes that while cancer research gets £419 million a year, all of respiratory disease gets only £16 million. Respiratory disease has long been neglected by governments around the world. Conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (904+ words) Healthcare Today Giovanna Forte, chief executive and co-founder of Forte Medical, says that if we want better outcomes for patients, improving UTI diagnosis is an important place to start. It often starts with something small like a burning sensation. Maybe…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (184+ words) The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a position paper clarifying how microbiome-based medicines can be made available for patients in the UK. Microbiome-based medicinal products are medicines that work through modulating, restoring or replacing the human…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (426+ words) A clinical trial platform co-led by a researcher at the University of Sheffield could accelerate the search for effective motor neuron disease (MND) treatments by identifying ineffective candidate drugs in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods. Researchers…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (482+ words) NHS criteria for identifying younger women at increased risk of breast cancer may need to be broadened, scientists have suggested. A study by the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Cancer Research found that up to 95% of women under…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (819+ words) Healthcare simulation has traditionally taught professionals how to recognise deterioration, intervene quickly and save a life. Those skills are essential. But they do not reflect every situation a healthcare professional will encounter. In paediatric palliative care, the right outcome is…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (792+ words) Nuffield Health Parkside Hospital in London has become the first independent provider in the UK to introduce the Histolog scanner during robotic prostatectomy procedures. Manufactured by SamanTree Medical, the device uses parallel confocal microscopy to allow surgeons and pathologists to…...