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Syringe and drugs

The New Normal

After Covid, is the future of drug and alcohol services digital? A switch to phone and online offerings might not…

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Posted in: Health

Why the south Wales town that forged the NHS now points to its future

Tredegar, the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, offers a microcosm of the health and social care problems facing the nation Growing…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: Aneurin Bevan, NHS, Tredegar

The idea that positive thinking has a big effect on labour is unscientific

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Yesterday The Telegraph published an article by Milli Hill headlined: “The myth of the painful birth – and why it’s not nearly so bad as…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: birth, child birth, childbirth, mothers, pain, pregnancy

How will artificial intelligence change radiology?

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Artificial intelligence and cognitive computing is being heralded as the brave new frontier of clinical IT, Kim Thomas reports on…

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Posted in: Health, Technology Filed under: artificial intelligence, radiology, Watson

Special report: Picture archiving and communications systems

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The refresh of picture archiving and communications systems triggered by the end of national contracts is almost at an end.…

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Posted in: Business, Health Filed under: Carestream, DICOM, Exchange Portal, GE Centricity, HL7, PACS, primary care, radiology, Sectra, trusts

Will mobile health apps make GPs redundant?

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Most of the 165,000 mobile health apps available offer advice on diet and fitness but new ones are diagnosing illness…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: apps, Babylon Health, business, Doctors, fitness, GPs, health, Health policy, Healthcare industry, mobile health, monitor, NHS, NHS Choices, Politics, Public services policy, Society, Technology, UK news, your.MD

Developing a new way of doing healthcare

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Apps developed in the UK are transforming healthcare in developing countries; and sometimes their ideas are coming back the other…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: apps, aptus, babylon, diagnosis, healthcare, Lionsgate, mobile, Mozambique, NHS111, openMRS, your.MD

Cancer, Alzheimer treatments on the verge of a breakthrough

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Greater understanding of genetics and characteristics of diseases are driving the development of new medicines The practice of medicine can…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: alzheimers, astrazenca, Biology, breakthrough, cancer, dna, epigenics, Genetics, health, immunotherapy, new treatment, nucala, olaparib, pfizer, research, Science, Society

Too many women leave hospital after childbirth with PTSD due to bad care

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Gill heard a midwife say, ‘Is she always this much of a drama queen?’ to her husband during a painful…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: birth, child birth, cumberlege, health, mothers, pregnancy, PTSD, report, suicide, trauma, writer

‘Their body, their data’: how portals can put patients in charge

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Portals let patients see their own medical information through a secure website. But why have they been so slow to…

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Posted in: Health, Public sector Filed under: Brother, data, health, information, medical, portals, websites

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