New approach to creating Alzheimer’s drugs helps identify potential treatments
A team of scientists at the University of Sheffield have adopted a new method of creating Alzheimer’s drugs, which has identified two potential new treatments for the disease.
Reducing hospital admissions with COVID-19 telemonitoring
A new telemonitoring programme has helped to reduce hospital admissions and ER visits from patients with COVID-19.
The rapid upscaling of a COVID-19 telemonitoring programme...
World’s first research and cultivation facility for psychedelic mushrooms
A new partnership will see the world’s first legal research and cultivation facility dedicated exclusively to psilocybin-producing mushrooms and other plant-based psychedelics.
Field Trip Health,...
Lifesaving COVID-19 treatment for hospitalised UK patients
Thousands of NHS patients who need to be hospitalised due to COVID-19 will now be able to receive a life-saving treatment named tocilizumab.
Clinical trials...
Mental health diagnoses and the role of machine learning
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a way of using machine learning to aid mental health diagnoses, and more specifically, to more accurately identify patients with a mix of psychotic and depressive symptoms.
UK institutions receive £2.3m grant for research of tropical diseases
Three UK institutions have been awarded £2.3m to investigate tropical diseases affecting some of the world’s poorest populations.
Scientists from Oxford Brookes University, University of...
Clear Your Head: COVID-19 and mental health
The Scottish government’s Clear Your Head campaign aims to provide help and support for people whose mental health has been affected by the COVID-19...
2021: an outlook for 5G in healthcare
BT Enterprise Health Sector Lead Lucy Baker explores the role of 5G connectivity in the growing health tech sector.
Last year was a year like...
New urine test can accurately detect womb cancer
A new and non-invasive urine test can accurately detect womb cancer.
The test is accurate at detecting womb cancer by looking at a urine or...
Government must be clear on vaccine information for BAME community
The government must be clear on information about vaccine creation to help vaccine uptake in the BAME community.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Study reveals top-performing point-of-care COVID-19 tests
A new study has revealed the top-performing point-of-care COVID-19 tests that meet the recently published World Health Organization (WHO) "desirable" Target Product Profile (TPP)...
Vital need to put health at forefront of climate change policy
New modelling has revealed how adopting policies that are consistent with achieving the Paris Agreement and prioritise health could save millions of lives each...
The case for mass producing psychedelic pharmaceuticals
In this article, financial journalist Marc Davis discusses the mass production of psychedelic pharmaceuticals and the steep educational curve facing medical science.
Medical science is...
Chronic illness can help us understand more about long-term COVID-19
A new study has explored how chronic illness research can help to inform our understanding of the long-term effects of COVD-19 and potentially lead...
Simulations reveal how air conditioning spreads COVID-19
A group of researchers have used advanced simulations to reveal how air conditioning contributes to the spread of COVID-19.
Following a restaurant COVID-19 outbreak in...
Clinical trial to test treatment for recent onset Type 1 Diabetes
A clinical trial will test the efficacy of the treatment IMCY-0098 in patients with recent onset Type 1 Diabetes.
Imcyse, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering...
Wearable devices detect COVID-19 symptoms before diagnosis
A new study has explored the use of wearable devices to detect symptoms of COVID-19 and predict a patient’s diagnosis.
Carried out by researchers at...
Accelerating the future of digital healthcare
Freshworks head of account management and public sector, John Kelly, explores the impact of COVID-19 on digitisation within the health sector.
If COVID-19 has taught...
World’s largest study to look at strokes caused by COVID-19
Researchers conducting the biggest study into reports of life-threatening COVID-19 strokes hope the research may help to prevent death and disability, related to the...
Moving to remote consultations to reduce the risk of COVID-19
A new study has examined how GPs in the UK coped with the rapid shift to remote consultations in a bid to help reduce...