The government is pursuing a three-pronged strategy to source 30,000 ventilators for the NHS to treat Covid-19 patients, ordering newly designed models, scaling up production of existing ones and importing machines from overseas. The defence firm Babcock joined the engineering company Dyson on Thursday in revealing plans for an entirely new medical ventilator working to specifications set by the […]

Around two million people in England are at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, the highest on record, according to new NHS figures. The new figures come as the NHS ramps up efforts to treat, prevent and even put the illness in remission, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. Latest stats show there are […]

The stakes are being raised in surgical robotics with Medtronic’s acquisition of Digital Surgery, a company that specializes in digitizing surgical protocols to use computing and to support the delivery of consistent, data-driven, and evidence-based surgical care. The deal follows Intuitive Surgical acquiring Orpheus Medical, a firm that provides clinical video capture and imaging documentation […]

Parsortix was also shown to be superior to other methods at picking up the tell-tale signs of cancer Researchers in Western Australia using the Parsortix liquid biopsy system have found another use for the ANGLE PLC (LON:AGL) cancer detection device. A team at Edith Cowan University in Perth deployed the technology to monitor people with melanoma and […]

The director of the NHS’ response to the coronavirus outbreak has reminded people concerned about infection to call NHS 111 for advice. The intervention from Professor Keith Willett follows inaccurate reports that the third patient in the UK to be confirmed as having the virus had gone to A&E for help. The NHS has today […]

Contura announced that it won FDA premarket approval for its Bulkamid hydrogel injection for treating stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Bulkamid is Contura’s proprietary device designed for treating SUI due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency in adult women with SUI or stress predominant mixed incontinence. According to a news release, the product is currently marketed in more than […]

NHS mental health director Claire Murdoch has today called on gaming companies to crack down on gambling addiction risks by banning loot boxes from their products. Ms Murdoch has warned video game firms that they risk “setting kids up for addiction” by building gambling tasks into their games. In response to growing concerns about addiction […]

Patients in the UK have been experiencing difficulties acquiring EpiPens since April 2018, after manufacturing issues caused a series of supply problems. Nearly two years later some pharmacies are still experiencing difficulties getting hold of them, despite supposedly sufficient EpiPen supplies in the country. In an October 2019 survey of 100 community pharmacies in England, […]