23rd Oct 2020 Friday FiveLaunch of asthma fund to support the development of new life-changing technologies The Asthma Technology Fund has been created by Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation alongside the National Institute for Health Research and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The £3m fund aims to create innovative and life-changing technology for 5.4 million people…
23rd Oct 2020 Friday FiveCQC State of Care report: Covid-19 has increased collaboration among health and care services, highlighted inequalities and left non-Covid patients behind The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England, which analyses the quality of care over the past year has highlighted the huge change that Covid-19…
23rd Oct 2020 Friday FiveAlexa voice assistant may be able to diagnose coronavirus At least three research groups are working on projects which analyse audio recordings of people with Covid-19 to develop voice-analysis algorithms which can detect the virus. “In the future, your robot, your Siri, your Alexa will simply say, ‘Oh you’ve got a cold,’” says Björn Schuller,…
23rd Oct 2020 Friday FiveMore than one million people have died from coronavirus globally The data from John Hopkins University, which has been tracking the outbreak showed that the millionth death on Tuesday 29th September, nearly 10 months since the first confirmed death in China. The virus is continuing to spread across the world, with more than 33 million…