Innovation Category

Highlighting amazing innovations in healthcare and medicine.

Rapid biomarker diagnostics for Cancers and heart disease

Infection/Disease, NHS, Paediatrics
BSPD: Time to talk about immunistion
BSPD advises GDP members to discuss immunisation following polio virus detection: Recent reports of the detection of the polio virus in sewage samples in London have promoted the British Society of …
First Aid, Infection/Disease
Sepsis signs and symptoms
Sepsis signs and symptoms: Sepsis is responsible for 52,000 deaths in the UK each year. A distressing 250,000 people contract the condition, which can have life-changing implications. Many of the …
Cancer, Heart & Lung
LDCT: Early Lung Cancer Screening
LDCT: Early Lung Cancer Screening: Every year, 48500 people in the UK are diagnosed with lung cancer. That’s 130 people every day. Making this statistic worse is the low 10-year …
Eyes, Neurology
New biomarker can predict MS severity
It is essential to assess the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) in order to choose appropriate therapeutic measures, but this cannot be reliably done using existing methods. A MedUni Vienna …
Infection/Disease, Integrative, Lifestyle, Nutrition
Pandemic alcohol consumption impact
Shifts in alcohol consumption during the pandemic could lead to thousands of extra deaths in England: two new studies from the University of Sheffield and Institute of Alcohol Studies/HealthLumen show …