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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

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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