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By Sophia Kurz A (not yet peer-reviewed) study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), alongside the charity Medical Detection Dogs and Durham University, found that trained sniffer dogs could detect the COVID-19 virus in humans with a high...

Carly Caton, Partner at Bevan Brittan, examines how Covid has changed the international market for NHS organisations The global health industry was worth around $8.5 trillion in 2018 and is expected to be worth around $10 trillion by 2022. Healthcare takes more than...

Rob Hurrell, Business Development Director at Aire Logic, outlines the need for digital solutions as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic Digital solutions have been on a meteoric rise over the past 10 years. If we consider where we were at the beginning of the 2010s,...

Data is an invaluable tool in streamlining costs across healthcare organisations, says Mat Oram, CEO and co-founder of AdviseInc The sudden arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic threw hospitals and health systems into disarray. Struggling to keep up with the overwhelming...

By Sophia Kurz  While more than 64 per cent of UK citizens aged 18 and over have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, India is still battling a second deadly wave.   Television coverage has shown overwhelmed hospitals experiencing a shortage of oxygen...

By Sophia Kurz  A survey conducted by The British Medical Association has found that 21per cent of UK doctors are considering leaving the NHS for another career, a move that would prove detrimental to the NHS whose workforce is not growing quick enough.  It’s...

Ahead of World Malaria Day, marked annually on 25 April, the WHO has hailed the success of the growing number of countries that are approaching, and achieving, zero cases of malaria across the world. In addition to the recognition of nations who have successfully...

Making the mental health of nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants a top priority, by Sophia Kurz  The advent of COVID-19 has impacted the United Kingdom in ways that no one could predict. So far, the UK death toll numbers 127,000 individuals with more than...

Cloud-based clinical solutions are the way forward, says Piyush Mahapatra, Director of Innovation at Open Medical   In the age of coronavirus, we have seen a dramatic rise in the need for innovative services to better manage our workforce across a wide range of...

Bruce Benton, Manager of the World Bank Riverblindness programmes, on how their success can impact Covid rollout in Africa  With the emergence of Covid-19 there is more awareness of how not just novel but also neglected diseases can affect a global population.  With...