The NIH is advancing the development of home-based and point-of-care health technologies with awards to six technology research and development centres across the United States.

Japan-based Sysmex Corporation recently introduced a testing system in Europe for rapid detection of antimicrobial susceptibility. The system detects the presence or absence of bacteria and assesses the effectiveness of antimicrobials using urine samples from patients suspected of having urinary tract infections (UTIs).

Pursuing fair artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare requires collaboration between experts across disci-plines, says a global team of scientists led by Duke-NUS Medical School in a new perspective published in npj Digital Medicine.

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) published Guidelines on cardiomyopathies on 25 August 2023 in European Heart Journal. [1] This is the first international guideline document to include all cardiomyopathy subtypes, and the first time that specific recommendations are made for cardiomyopathies other than hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  

ESC Congress 2023 Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is as effective and safe as conventional thermal ablation for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023.