IHF and AHF join forces

The International Hospital Federation (IHF) and Africa Healthcare Federation (AHF) have entered into a partnership to increase the participation of healthcare leaders from African countries in the IHF and other global hospital and healthcare initiatives.

Owlstone Medical secures $58 million to advance breath biopsy

Owlstone Medical, a global leader in breath biopsy for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine, closed its Series D financing round after securing $58 million in funding, exceeding its $50 million target after it was over subscribed. This brings the total raised by the company to more than $150 million since founding in […]

SAFIRA regional anaesthesia device awarded HSJ Patient Safety Innovation of the Year

A ground-breaking regional anaesthesia device, invented by clinicians at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH) and developed in conjunction with medical device company Medovate, has been awarded ‘Patient Safety Innovation of the Year’ at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards.

Brooks Automation, Cleveland Clinic open biobanking facility

Brooks Automation and Cleveland Clinic have opened a new 22,000-square-foot biospecimen sample management and repository facility on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland, Ohio. The two-story biorepository is managed by Azenta Life Sciences, Brooks’ recently re-branded life sciences division, and includes ultra-cold and cryogenic storage. The new facility increases biobanking capacity at Cleveland Clinic and […]

DNV and CareCom launch CareIndexing: a new company shaping up disorderly clinical data with artificial intelligence

Healthcare professionals create and update hundreds of thousands of patient notes, diagnostic reports, lab analyses, and other clinical records every day. Yet 80% of the data included in them is unstructured. Information about clinical diagnoses is reported using different expressions, terms, acronyms and even languages, making records impossible to consolidate, analyse and report on at […]

Hologic to acquire Bolder Surgical for $160 million

Hologic, a global leader in women’s health, will acquire Bolder Surgical, a privately held, U.S.-based company that provides advanced energy vessel sealing surgical devices, for approximately $160 million, subject to working capital and other customary closing adjustments.

Our health is not negotiable

WHO puts health at centre of climate change mitigation recommendations

The green imperative for medical device businesses

The global healthcare system is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, representing 4.4% of the total worldwide footprint.[1] Supply chains occupy a significant share of this contribution. In the UK, for instance, 62% of the National Health Service’s emissions footprint came from the supply chain in 2019. [2] The purchasing power of healthcare systems […]

NIH BRAIN Initiative unveils detailed Atlas of the Mammalian Primary Motor Cortex

The NIH Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) [1] has unveiled an atlas of cell types and an anatomical neuronal wiring diagramme for the mammalian primary motor cortex, derived from detailed studies of mice, monkeys, and humans. This publicly available resource represents the culmination of an international collaborative effort […]

Tackling the collateral damage from antibiotics

Scientists pave the way for reducing the harmful side effects antibiotics have on gut bacteria