Latest news and issues from the world of vets and veterinary sciences: Call for inspirational young vets to enter new award This wide award celebrates inspirational young vets who are making a difference through their day to day work. Recognising that the transition from student to qualified...
All the latest news about Healthcare from around the world: Using Data to Provide Better Health Care to New York’s Homeless New York City Health + Hospitals, which serves more than one million people a year, is now sing data science to identify and “phenotype” homeless patients...
Nearly 40% of adults with type 1 diabetes were misdiagnosed with type 2 says research done by the University of Exeter. It is key to provide efficient translation services to patients when being diagnosed. This prevents misdiagnosis and ensures they get the right treatment including insulin or...
We celebrate World Book Day by proposing two medical books written by doctors: “This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor,” by Adam Kay and “When Breath Becomes Air Book”, by Paul Kalanithi. Adam Kay's first book, “This is Going to Hurt, revisiting...
Millennials (ages 21–32) will change the healthcare system by expecting continuous improvement. Advances in technology, demographic shifts and consumer trends will affect the healthcare landscape in the future. As patients behave more like consumers, they seek to use their digital skills and experiences as they interact with...
As patients more and more want to be active participants in information exchange and decision-making processes concerning their health, and technology is rapidly advancing, integrating big achievements in other fileds to the healthcare sector, data collected via personal monitoring devices will be growing. It can be...
The number of researchers and resources devoted to oncological research and the possibility to use new technologies, make us feel optimistic for a future cure. Meanwhile, oncological care is experimenting notable changes. For example in Spain, Oncological Functional Units have been created in order to...
Early diagnosis is the best cancer prevention Amadix, a Spanish startup located in Valladolid and winner of the Madrid South Summit, aims to provide diagnostic tools...
Translation of medical documents must always follow certain criteria to search compliance with current laws. However, there are medical materials or guidelines that are needed due to governmental mandates and others that are linked to the institutions particular needs. To satisfy those needs also come robotics...
It is a fact that interpreters are some of the first people called on to perform written translation and/or sight translation whether or not they have the skills to do this. Healthcare has seen smart algorithm-powered, text or voice-based interfaces multiply in the last years. That is why we can...