The global electronic health record debacle
Jean Michel LeTennier, CEO, Atomic Information Systems Corp talks about global electronic health records and explains the challenges of these systems...
What has become painfully clear to...
Do youth offenders benefit from physical activity?
Ellen Rowles from Action PR outlines why physical activity can hold the key to the success of supporting youth offenders…
Statistics from the Youth Justice Board...
Residual malaria – relevance to transmission in the Amazon Basin
Jan Conn, Sara Bickersmith and Catharine Prussing from the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health and Marta Moreno from the Department of...
Monitoring antibiotic resistance in the UK
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a global problem and here in part 2 of an interview with AG, Professor Alan Johnson, Head of the Department...
What can we do to protect our lung health?
Professor Guy Joos, President of the European Respiratory Society and Dan Smyth, Chair of the European Lung Foundation, look at the importance of healthy...
€68m medical devices research centre to open in Ireland
A new partnership between universities in Ireland will see a new centre for medical device research launched…
The medical devices research sector is set to...
Brain disorders and the burden of diseases
Frédéric Destrebecq, Executive Director, and Vinciane Quoidbach, Public Health and Policy Project Manager at the European Brain Council, explain the socio-economic impact of interventions...
Clear and credible plan needed for digital health
According to a new briefing published by The Kings’ Fund, government minister's and NHS leaders should have a definitive plan for digital health…
The briefing...
Encouraging communities to get healthy
Beki Cadd and Stephanie Bradbeer from Action PR highlight the importance of increasing leisure participation amongst disengaged groups within communities…
According to statistics from Sport...
Global pledge to eradicate drug-resistant infections
A landmark declaration is to be signed by the 193 countries of the United Nations to stamp out drug-resistant infections or “superbugs”…
Experts say, the...
Funding key research for Alzheimer’s disease
Melinda Kelley from the National Institute on Aging in the US, speaks to Editor Laura Evans about raising awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and how...
Smoking rates in England fall to lowest on record
The number of people in England smoking has fallen to the lowest ever recorded, according to Public Health England (PHE)…
Compared with 19.3 percent in...
North West councils launch foster carers campaign
Twenty-three local authorities are taking part in a region-wide campaign to recruit and raise awareness of the need for more foster carers….
A new campaign...
The measurement conundrum in healthcare
Dr Benjamin Van Voorhees, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, talks about the role of quantitative measurements in healthcare to ensure high standards of...
Hunt introduces new online 111 services
The government has revealed plans to expand 111 into a new online service in a bid to move towards a paperless NHS…
Health Secretary Jeremy...
Healthy in every sphere of life
Romina Männl, Project Assistant, Pfalzklinikum für Psychiatrie und Neurologie discusses ‘The Palatinate makes itself/you strong – ways to resilience’ initiative...
'The Palatinate makes itself/you strong – ways to...
Bridging the European healthcare gaps
Bridge Health Coordination highlight the three main functions of public health.
Public health policy and organisations aim to prevent disease, and to promote health and...
Social Innovation on active and healthy ageing for sustainable economic growth
Dr Elena Urdaneta from the Basque Culinary Center-SIforAGE Project highlights how the projects aims to strengthen cooperation among the stakeholders working on active and...
£15m mental health fund announced by the government
The government has announced 41 projects will share £15m to fund mental health places of safety…
The Department of Health has revealed £15m will be...
Interception therapies for neurodegeneration
Duncan McHale, Vice President, Head of Global Early Development at UCB highlights new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease…
Neurodegenerative diseases are a...