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  • What a karyotype actually shows: when it’s offered, and what it can and can’t tell you

    Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic Karyotype testing has become a familiar part of fertility and pregnancy investigations. The test is older, and more specific in what it can answer, than many people realise. Karyotyping is one of the oldest genetic tests still in routine clinical use. The technology dates back to the [...]

  • Flok Health secures US$12.5million for AI physio

    Flok Health has raised US$12.5m to expand its AI physio service for back pain in the UK and overseas. The Cambridge-based health technology company will use the Series A funding to expand its back pain service, add new treatment areas and enter overseas markets. Flok runs an AI-led physiotherapy clinic that offers video-based assessments and [...]

  • From symptoms to prediction: A new era of healthcare?

    As preventive and longevity medicine becomes more data-rich, physicians are being asked to interpret hundreds of biomarkers, continuous wearable streams, advanced diagnostics and constantly evolving scientific literature, often without a single source of truth across labs, systems, and records. Today, a clinical intelligence platform has been launched to solve that gap. Built for longevity, concierge, functional medicine, [...]

  • Half a million NHS staff given AI tools to free up times for patients

    More than 500,000 NHS staff are being given AI tools that could free up around two days a month for patient-facing work. NHS England said it is significantly accelerating AI adoption across healthcare services by giving 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The AI personal assistant helps clinicians draft documents and [...]

  • Female-led startup Joyvié Health raises over £750k

    Joyvié has raised £771k to launch reusable incontinence underwear for people with faecal incontinence. The Sussex-based female-led startup has closed its pre-seed funding round through angel investment and Innovate UK grant funding. The money will support a direct-to-consumer product launch later in 2026. It will also fund clinical pilots across care home, hospital [...]

  • Hospitals ranked highly for empathy see better outcomes for patients and staff, study finds

    Hospitals with higher empathy scores had better patient and staff outcomes, according to provisional research on NHS trusts in England. The study suggests trusts with higher empathy scores also spent less on agency staff, locums and consultants. Researchers created an empathy score for NHS trusts using publicly available information on organisational culture, leadership behaviour and [...]

  • WHO paper sets out emerging challenges and opportunities in health AI

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a paper on how health AI could reshape policy-making, setting out both risks and opportunities. The paper examines how AI could affect the way health problems are defined, policy options are designed and the impact of decisions is assessed. It says AI could help policymakers analyse [...]

  • Semble raises €34.7m Series C

    Semble has raised £30m to expand its care coordination platform for outpatient healthcare providers across the UK and Europe. The London-based health tech company secured €34.7m, equivalent to £30m, in a Series C funding round. Semble helps outpatient providers coordinate care and manage the patient journey, from bookings and clinical records to billing [...]

  • Alpha Tau Medical and Tolmar partner to commercialise Alpha DaRT prostate cancer therapy in the US

    Alpha Tau Medical Ltd, developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT, and Tolmar International Ltd., one of the strongest commercial players in the U.S. urology, oncology, endocrinology and paediatric endocrinology markets, have announced a strategic collaboration agreement to develop and commercialise Alpha DaRT for the treatment of prostate cancer in the United States. [...]

  • Taking it past the buzz: How AI can truly support clinical care

    By Dr Ed Hutchison, clinical solutions specialist, Altera Digital Health AI is now impossible to ignore. You cannot move without seeing some sort of AI advert promising a capability that is going to revolutionise your life. Need a new fridge? It better have inbuilt AI. Need to book a holiday? Why don’t you talk to [...]

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