Tag: pioneering

A key symptom of COVID-19—oxygen saturation—is now being estimated remotely from a camera, thanks to research from University of South Australia engineers Professor Javaan Chahl, Dr. Ali Al-Naji and their team of graduate students. AI health monitoring software developed by the team this year, and licensed to North American drone company Draganfly Inc, already detects

British grandfather, 63, becomes the first person in the world to benefit from a pioneering triple-combo heart-failure treatment which uses three wireless implants to regulate organ Robert Brind, 63, from Whitstable, Kent, had the implants fitted over six months One of the wires attached to heart prompts the organ to beat at a normal rate 

In today’s current era of precision medicine against cancer, research is successfully potentiating and personalizing immunotherapy to unleash the power of the immune system in a greater number of patients to attack disease. Despite such progress, much work is required to better predict those patients who would be most likely benefit from them, and extend

Alzheimer’s breakthrough as pioneering head device ‘can REVERSE memory loss’ using electromagnetic waves to break up clumps of toxic proteins, experts claim Transcranial electromagnetic treatment breaks down clumps of toxic proteins This can free up previously-blocked nerve cells and help them function normally  The quest for Alzheimer’s treatments has for decades hit massive roadblocks  A

Laser guided 3D printed hip surgery? It gets my vote! MP Nadine Dorries on the moment she ‘cried with relief’ after undergoing pioneering procedure that cured her of agonising pain Mid Bedfordshire Nadine Dorries suffered agonising pain from arthritis in her hip She declined a hip replacement despite being encouraged to do so by doctors  MP

NHS set to offer cancer patients a ‘game changer’ treatment that could save THOUSANDS of lives CAR-T therapy is a new treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) The immunotherapy treatment could benefit 30,000 Britons a year  Trials in the US showed it eradicated CLL in 94 per cent of patients The NHS is preparing to