Heart surgery delays will cost lives, warns research
17 June 2022Pandemic has delayed lifesaving treatment for thousands of people with severe aortic stenosis.Â
Low-cost device being developed to help cancer patients manage their care
05 May 2022Med-tech start-up has raised £1 million in its first round of funding to help it develop the NeutroCheck, a fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical device-based system for people living with cancer. Â
From sick-care to health-care
09 February 2022Meet the young biotech entrepreneur with two companies to her name and a plan to revolutionise the way we manage our health.
Training a new breed of clinical triallist
03 February 2022Cambridge's Experimental Medicine Initiative, working with AstraZeneca and GSK, is training specialists who can work out at an earlier stage of clinical trials if a treatment is likely to succeed.
Cambridge spin-out aims to realise the power of genomic data in precision medicine
02 February 2022Cambridge spin-out Zetta Genomics has raised £2.5 million in new seed funding from Nina Capital, APEX Medical and Cambridge Enterprise to advance its genomic data management technology and power the discovery and delivery of precision medicine at scale.
Concerns over medical consultations by phone and video – study
02 November 2021A study of rheumatology patients and clinicians has found that while the majority found phone or video consultations more convenient than face-to-face consultations, they viewed so-called telemedicine as less diagnostically accurate than in-person consultations and as having the potential to increase health inequalities and barriers to accessing appropriate care.
One man, three companies, tens of thousands of lives...
22 October 2021Professor Steve Jackson talks about drug discovery, serial entrepreneurship and the enterprising mindset.
Hospital-acquired COVID-19 tends to be picked up from other patients, not from healthcare workers
24 August 2021̽»¨Ö±²¥majority of patients who contracted COVID-19 while in hospital did so from other patients rather than from healthcare workers, concludes a new study from researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut hospital-acquired infections dramatically
29 June 2021When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a dramatic fall – up to 100% – in hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among these staff.
Proper fit of face masks is more important than material, study suggests
11 February 2021A team of researchers studying the effectiveness of different types of face masks has found that in order to provide the best protection against COVID-19, the fit of a mask is as important, or more important, than the material it is made of.
