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🩸 NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has launched its first progressive digital actuality coaching app ‘NHSBT Blood Identification’ which realistically simulates the method of testing blood for lifesaving blood transfusions. This opens up its world-leading coaching to extra college students fascinated with a profession in biomedical science or transfusion science. Rajpal Singh from St George’s in Bristol, who wants common blood for thalassaemia, visited the NHSBT Filton website in Bristol to affix a coaching session within the apply lab, studying how you can match blood varieties for secure transfusion. He used the brand new digital actuality app and in addition used the true lab tools. The brand new VR coaching is already being utilized in NHSBT and has simply been launched on the Meta Quest App Lab retailer.
🦠 The microbiome can determine those that profit from mixture immunotherapy throughout a number of completely different cancers, together with uncommon gynaecological cancers, biliary tract cancers and melanoma. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Olivia Newton-John Most cancers Analysis Institute in Australia, and collaborators, have recognized particular strains of micro organism which are linked with a optimistic response to mixture immunotherapy within the largest research of its type. The research, printed right this moment (1 March) in Nature Drugs, particulars a signature assortment of microorganisms in a person’s intestine micro organism which will assist determine those that would profit from mixture immunotherapy and assist clarify why the efficacy of this therapy is in any other case laborious to foretell.
📈 Researchers from the College of Michigan have demonstrated that the Epic Sepsis Mannequin’s danger stratification accuracy was considerably impacted by whether or not its predictions had been restricted to knowledge collected earlier than a affected person met sepsis standards. Within the research, printed this month within the New England Journal of Drugs (NEJM) AI, the analysis group indicated that AI instruments able to predicting sepsis onset might enhance therapy and outcomes. Instruments to determine sepsis danger, just like the Epic Sepsis Mannequin (ESM), have been developed and deployed in well being techniques throughout the USA, however questions on their accuracy and scientific utility have been raised just lately. Huge utilisation of Epic’s digital well being document (EHR) system, inside which the ESM is embedded, has led to a number of assessments of the sepsis device’s efficiency.
💰 Ema, an AI platform devoted to reworking girls’s well being and wellness, has efficiently concluded its newest bridge spherical of funding, securing almost $2 million. The spherical noticed participation from Kubera Ventures and Victorum Capital, in addition to earlier traders Hearst Labs, Wormhole Capital, Acumen America, and Techstars. Based on the precept that ladies’s well being deserves personalised, empathetic, and evidence-based assist, Ema leverages generative AI (GenAI) expertise to supply personalised well being help at scale. This progressive method has not solely resonated inside the direct-to-consumer (DTC) area with greater than 100,000 customers however has additionally made substantial inroads into the B2B sector, securing over $100K in contracts inside simply 30 days after pivoting to this mannequin, in response to info offered by the corporate.
💊 Most cancers sufferers dwelling with a uncommon illness which assaults the physique’s personal organs following a life-saving stem cell transplant are set to profit from a pioneering new medication on the NHS. Belumosudil (Rezurock) is an progressive therapy for continual graft versus host illness, which develops in round a 3rd of sufferers who’ve undergone stem cell or bone marrow transplants for blood cancers equivalent to leukaemia and lymphoma. The drug is given as soon as a day as a pill and works by inhibiting the proteins that are accountable for the possibly life-threatening inflammatory response attributable to continual graft versus host illness. It may be taken at house, decreasing the variety of hospital appointments for some sufferers. In scientific trials utilizing belumosudil to deal with continual graft versus host illness, as much as three quarters of sufferers responded to remedy and this was handiest for treating illness affecting the mouth, gut or joints.
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Half (50%) of nurses and care staff have skilled psychological well being issues and stress on account of not having the related expertise to carry out their jobs properly, in response to new analysis from healthcare schooling startup, FuturU.
Psychological well being is among the most urgent challenges at the moment confronted by the well being and social care sector as a complete. Based on NHS Digital, psychological unwell well being accounts for over 25% of illness absence within the NHS. In 2022, councils in England misplaced over 500,000 working days to psychological unwell well being and stress amongst care staff. But, the hyperlink between psychological well being and the talents hole is much less properly recognised or mentioned.
📖 What we’re studying
How Medical Imaging is Redefining Healthcare – John Memarian, VP at digital healthcare innovator CitiusTech, explores medical imaging, together with how the expertise is impacting healthcare
🚨 This week’s occasions
1 March 2024, Westminster Well being Discussion board – Subsequent steps for respiratory well being providers in England