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Coronavirus latest: Home testing to be introduced as Matt Hancock expects more cases in UK

Coronavirus cases are rising every day, but health bodies around the world have been working tirelessly to do what they can to keep the virus contained. On the 23rd of February, 115 people left supported isolation Kents Hill Park near Milton Keynes after all testing negative for COVID-19. On Saturday, 32 people from the Diamond… Read More: Coronavirus latest: Home testing to be introduced as Matt Hancock… »

Exclusive: Brain scans used to read minds of intensive care patients

By Clare Wilson People in intensive care can be unable to say what treatment they wantMartin Barraud/Getty When a person sustains a severe brain injury that leaves them unable to communicate, their families and doctors often have to make life-or-death decisions about their care for them. Now brain scanners are being tested in intensive care… Read More: Exclusive: Brain scans used to read minds of intensive care… »

Tech Trailblazers Security Award Winning Startups Achieve Great Things, Analysis Shows

First seven winners and runners-up of awards that recognise outstanding early-stage companies raise over US$ 700m in investment RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA – February 25th 2020 – Winning an innovation award is no guarantee of subsequent business success for early-stage, technology startups, especially in the constantly evolving sphere of ‘security’. Yet, analysis shows,… Read More: Tech Trailblazers Security Award Winning Startups Achieve Great Things, Analysis… »

They Thought She Drank, But Her Body Actually ‘Auto-Brewed’

MONDAY, Feb. 24, 2020 — Doctors thought they had a fairly common scenario in front of them: A patient with advanced liver disease who needed help for her alcohol abuse. Then they discovered her own bladder was making the alcohol. The doctors, at the University of Pittsburgh, say it’s a previously unrecognized variant of so-called… Read More: They Thought She Drank, But Her Body Actually ‘Auto-Brewed’ »