healthcare
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12 Oct
IBM and health startup docdok.health are using big data and apps to tackle lung disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, might not be a disease you hear about regularly but it soon will be.
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9 Oct
World Mental Health Day: The founder of Head Talks on why mental health is costing businesses billions
Mental health issues will cost the global economy $925bn this year and the number of people affected is increasing.
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7 Jul
US jobs up but wage growth remains stagnant
US employment was up by more than Wall Street economists had expected last month, Labor Department figures published on Friday revealed.
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16 May
NHS and Google’s DeepMind data-sharing partnership deemed “inappropriate”
A partnership which saw the UK’s National Health System (NHS) share the medical records of 1.6m patients with Google has been deemed inappropriate by the top data protection adviser to the NHS.
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16 May
Majority of UK workers go into the office, even if they are unwell
UK workers are three times more likely go into work when they are unwell instead of taking time off, a survey published yesterday revealed.
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24 Apr
C. diff infections are causing havoc in hospitals in Scotland and England
Between October 2015 and October 2016, the NHS in Scotland reported 1,150 cases of C.
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21 Apr
Google’s Verily wants to become a prophet of human health
Google’s life-science arm, Verily, is initiating Project Baseline — a 10,000 person study to gain a better understanding of people’s predisposition to various illnesses.
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23 Mar
Trump’s healthcare bill vote; Japanese PM scandal deepens; London recovers from terror attack
These three things will change the world today.
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23 Mar
Millennials beat boomers when it comes to healthcare
Millennials, a generation that now outnumbers the baby boomers, could be the key to alleviating burdens on our health care system and improving the health of future populations.
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17 Mar
AI software is proven to be better at lip-reading than humans
Oxford University scientists have created a new software programme that can lip-read better than humans.
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7 Mar
Samsung and Start VR are using virtual reality to help chemotherapy patients
Tech giant Samsung has teamed up with virtual reality (VR) studio, Start VR, to use VR technology to alleviate stress for oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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27 Feb
What is bio-hacking and are we all doomed?
At the recent Munich Security Conference, Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates warned millions might be at risk from bio-terrorism, through the activities of amateur scientists — AKA bio-hackers.
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27 Feb
The Russian healthcare market is looking up — and Trump’s administration could send it higher still
The Russian economy was devastated by the collapse of the Russian ruble in the second half of 2014, but optimism for future growth remains after greater investment in human capital and services.
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23 Feb
Can Fitbit’s smartwatch strategy work?
Fitbit, the maker of wearable fitness trackers has recorded a slump in its fourth-quarter revenue, which dropped to $573.8m, a fall of almost 20 percent.
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17 Feb
The AI impact: how bots are changing the healthcare industry
Training to become a doctor takes around seven years in the UK, in terms of a five-year university education and two years training as a junior doctor.
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26 Jan
Fake news and your health: can dis-information be deadly?
Fake news is now infamous for the role it played in the politics of the so-called post-truth era, with experts claiming it as the driving force behind events such as the UK’s vote to leave the European Union and the US presidential election.
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20 Jan
Hacking health — Cyber security is a big concern for medical device makers
On 9 January, US medical device company St.
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16 Jan
Oxfam’s quick fix for wealth inequality should worry you
Oxfam’s annual headline-grabbing stats on rising wealth inequality have been picked apart all over the web today.