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Over half of NHS doctors want to work from home in ‘online hospital’
In an NHS survey of 303 senior doctors, 60 per cent said they would be interested in working for the online service, alongside their existing roles, when it starts next year. Read more here.
Read more: Over half of NHS ...UCL to work with World Health Organisation on digital tools and health emergencies
The UCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE) has been designated a World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Digital Public Health and Pandemic Preparedness. Read more here.
Read more: UCL to work with ...AI shifts non-communicable disease risk prediction beyond genetics
Pharmacy researchers in Hong Kong have developed an AI-driven tool that predicts cardiovascular risks beyond genetics, monitoring near-real-time biological changes before diseases become apparent. Read more here.
Read more: AI shifts non-com...Radiomics AI Supports Detection of Prostate Cancer
Automated radiomics-based artificial intelligence tools are being evaluated as decision-support systems that may assist radiologists in lesion detection and risk assessment while fitting into established prostate cancer diagnostic pathways. Read more here.
Read more: Radiomics AI Supp...New British College of Cosmetic Surgery launches
Announcing the official launch of the British College of Cosmetic Surgery, an important new initiative dedicated to strengthening education, collaboration and professional standards within cosmetic surgery. Read more here.
Read more: New British Colle...Gen Z nurses prioritize schedule flexibility, need more manager interactions to avoid turnover
A new workforce report sheds light on the unique work behaviors and management needs of young nurses. The analysis of nearly 100,000 registered nurses across more than 150 hospitals and health systems focuses on Gen Z nurses—those under 30 who…
Read more: Gen Z nurses prio...Where AI can make the biggest impact in healthcare
AI-powered care navigation can make a real difference in improving patient outcomes, but many health systems dealing with legacy infrastructure and data silos have yet to scale AI solutions. Read more here.
Read more: Where AI can make...b.well, Perplexity partner for AI-powered personalized health answers
b.well Connected Health, which offers a connected health data network, is partnering with AI-enabled conversational search engine Perplexity to allow Perplexity users to authorize access to their medical records and ask personalized health questions informed by their individual health history. …
Read more: b.well, Perplexit...Innovation in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder will not solve the care gap
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remains one of psychiatry’s most disabling conditions, affecting about 1-2% of the population. People with OCD have an 82% increase in all cause mortality compared with unnafected matched people from the general population, with suicide being a major contributor.…
Read more: Innovation in tre...Servier to acquire Day One, maker of pediatric cancer drug, for $2.5B
The French pharma company Servier said Friday that it would buy Day One Biopharmaceuticals, the maker of a drug for childhood brain tumors, in a deal worth roughly $2.5 billion. Read more here.
Read more: Servier to acquir...First Targeted Bladder Cancer Treatment Shows Promising Phase I Results
In a potential win for targeted therapy in bladder cancer, Johnson & Johnson announced results from a Phase I study of erdafitinib (Erda-iDRS) in patients with the intermediate-risk non-muscle-invasive form of the disease. Read more here.
Read more: First Targeted Bl...Turquoise Health raises $40M to power healthcare contracts, payments
Turquoise Health, a healthcare pricing and payment platform, secured $40 million in series C funding. Read more here.
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