Demand for weight-loss medicines in the UK has run well ahead of what the NHS can provide. Researchers at UCL estimate that 1.6 million adults in Great Britain used a medicine to lose weight between early 2024 and early 2025, and that a further 3.3 million were...
Women’s health innovation is experiencing a period of rapid growth. Founders are developing new diagnostics, medical devices, digital platforms, wearables and therapies for conditions that have historically received too little research attention and investment. That...
It's 3am. Thoughts are racing in circles, and there is no one to talk to: friends are asleep, the next appointment with a psychotherapist is weeks away, and not everyone can afford one. So a person either lies awake, scrolls endlessly through social media, or turns to...
Why closing the gap between clinical nutrition advice and the food labels in the supermarket aisle is a data problem before it is an education problem. Around 11 million deaths in 2017 were attributable to dietary risk factors, according to the Global Burden of...
The debate over prescription drug costs, in long-term care as elsewhere, often starts and ends with a number. How much did the medication cost before a negotiated price? How much will Medicare pay? What will the patient owe at the pharmacy counter? Those are important...
I practice emergency medicine. Overnight care is where timing funds or fails any sepsis early warning tool. A recommendation that sits unconfirmed for hours is not decision support. It is wallpaper. Confirmation is the intervention Accuracy slides still dominate...
Healthcare innovation is often associated with something new. A new technology. A new platform. A new device. A new digital service. But healthcare organizations do not always need to add something new to improve care. Sometimes, they need to change something that is...
If you are not aware of the statistics on diabetic limb loss, they deserve your attention. Prevention is an absolute necessity. We call this diabetic foot care, and the way podiatrists utilize these opportunities is moving into a more data-rich era. Remote...
Generative AI can lift the administrative weight of literature reviews and manuscript drafting, but only when it stays grounded in evidence and firmly under human control. The problem we know too well Every clinician who also publishes lives with a quiet collision. On...
A radiologic study today rarely arrives alone. It comes wrapped in automated detection flags, quantitative lesion scores, an AI-drafted report, historical imaging, EHR clinical notes, and subspecialty consult requests. What it does not come wrapped in is medical AI...
The life sciences sector is built on evidence, innovation and better health outcomes. So why is women’s hormone health at work still so often treated as a peripheral issue, asks Sarah Davies, Managing Director of Balance@Work? Life sciences organisations spend their...
Validated integrations with Veeva applications help life sciences field teams train, practice, and execute with approved content and real time intelligence Toronto and New York, 2 September 2026 ACTO, uniting human intelligence with empathetic AI in life sciences,...
AI embryo selection tools can support clinical judgment, but current evidence does not justify treating an algorithmic score as a clinical verdict. A prediction is not a decision Artificial intelligence is entering in vitro fertilisation at one of its most...
Two rooms that rarely talk I spend my working life in two rooms that almost never talk to each other. The first is the hospital floor, where I care for several thousand patients a year as an attending physician. The second is the conference room, where I evaluate...
Inflammation is one of the most extensively studied biological processes in modern health science—and one of the most misunderstood concepts in clinical aromatherapy, natural-products and beauty. Inflammation is not inherently harmful. It is a coordinated biological...
Podiatric input is still mostly reactive, despite the significant advancements in diabetes care in recent decades. All too frequently, patients are referred to podiatry only after infections or ulcers have already occurred. This reactive approach is expensive in terms...
For most of their existence, electronic health records have been treated as administrative infrastructure, a place to document a visit, justify a claim and satisfy a compliance requirement. That framing no longer reflects their potential. The same records that...
Meditation may help us observe an experience without immediately reacting to it. Expressive writing may help us give that experience language, structure and meaning. What happens when we stop trying to escape an uncomfortable thought or emotion and instead observe it...