NHS trusts have come under fresh pressure to end arbitrary restrictions on the numbers of absorbent continence products supplied to patients after ministers reiterated that continence care should be based on clinical need and uphold patients’ dignity. The Department of Health and Social Care said NH
ABILITY Neurotech, a clinical-stage brain-computer interface (BCI) company developing a neural data platform to restore communication, movement, agency and independence for individuals with severe neurological impairment, has announced the first-in-human procedure for its BCI technology. Conducted a
Carea, the pregnancy and postnatal wellbeing app, has launched Carea Connect, a service that analyses a woman’s wellbeing data to identify when additional support may be beneficial and proactively connects her with the right maternal health expert. The launch makes Carea the first UK pregnancy and p
VitVio has announced that it is opening access to Vetro, its 3D-native AI platform for operating room intelligence, for hospitals and health systems. The company says Vetro is the world’s platform of its kind for operating rooms, giving hospitals a live picture of what’s happening in surgery. Unlike
NHS consortium champions AI research enabling faster, more accurate cancer diagnosis to improve patient outcomes The National Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC), based out of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has gone live with a new hospital site. Bringing the total number of connected sites a
Lumiris, a pioneer in reproductive technology, has announced a major breakthrough in fertility science with the discovery of new biomarkers for assessing egg viability. This was made possible by using the company’s METAPHOR platform, marking a successful first application of the technology on human
Chris Whitehouse, a political consultant and expert on medical technology policy and regulation at Whitehouse Communications, looks at the changing faces coming and going in the new Government. Lord Patrick Vallance has quit his post as Science Minister ahead of the coming Cabinet reshuffle. Lord Va
Researchers at Loughborough University are uncovering new evidence that exercise may help counteract the cancer-promoting effects of fat cells. The research uses advanced 3D cell culture models and bioluminescence-based assay technology from Promega to generate physiologically relevant data that tra
A ‘state-of-the-art’ 3D printing lab producing ultra-realistic medical models for training, surgical simulation and patient-specific anatomical modelling has been unveiled at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Funded through a wider National Institute for Health and Care Research (N
‘Ride for Rare’ will combine fundraising with real-world validation of VENTO as the UK charity accelerates development towards clinical deployment As many medical technologies are validated in laboratories, Keep Me Breathing is taking a different approach. This July, the UK MedTech charity will emba
Medicaroid Corporation has announced that the CE marking under the Medical Device Regulation (MDR(2017/745)) has been obtained for the hinotori Surgical Robot System. The hinotori was originally approved for manufacturing and marketing in Japan in 2020 and subsequently launched domestically. After t
Women’s health companies raised a record $1.55 billion in disclosed equity in 2025, up 39% year on year, according to The Road to the Era of Scale, the first Global Women’s Health Investment Report from W Group. The report, built on proprietary tracking of more than 500 funding stories and 164 equit
