Cost regulators for NHS treatments in England and Wales are sticking with their position that Eisai’s Halaven should not be funded by the NHS as a second-line of attack against a certain form of breast cancer.
Surgeons in the UK are using Microsoft’s mixed-reality headset to “see inside” patients before they operate on them.
Google’s DeepMind has potentially made the first significant application of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) in healthcare, after developing AI to diagnose disease by analysing medical images.
A machine learning technology developed to spot dangerous medical conditions before they worsen has shown its value in a trial.
Surgeons use Microsoft HoloLens headsets while operating on patients undergoing reconstructive lower limb surgery.
NICE has become the latest organisation to champion digital health, recommending that the NHS should trial an online and mobile programme to treat depression.
The Government’s 2015 Cancer Strategy is failing to support blood cancer patients in the UK and care must improve, an MP inquiry has found.
A study has found an unexpected new drug target for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) that could open new avenues to develop effective treatments against this potentially lethal disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Gurdon Institute and their collaborators show that inhibiting the METTL3 gene destroys human and mouse AML cells without harming non-leukaemic blood cells.
Merck and Pfizer have launched in the UK of Bavencio, the first medicine to be licensed for the treatment of the rare, aggressive skin cancer of metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma (mMCC).
The debate explores whether food taxation is an indispensable strategy to correct obesity trends, or whether there should be other ways of approaching the problem.
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