Strategic partnership highlights: Expansion of partnership between Microsoft and G42 to deliver advanced AI solutions with Microsoft Azure across various industries and markets. Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in G42 for a minority stake in G42 and join its board of directors. Companies will support the establishment of a $1 billion...
READ MORESabine Torgler Staff Nurse University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) Director English for Nurses Ltd. Board member, European Nurse Directors Association UK My Dear Readers, Happy April to you all. I hope my words find you well. It's time for thoughts from the island. The title of this...
READ MOREReal men don't cry – or at least that is what society has made us believe. Hypermasculinisation refers to a gender role that makes men feel crying is weak or feminine. Unfortunately, the trend has produced men who cannot express themselves, and bottling up these emotions leads to depression and harms mental health. Everyone has their...
READ MOREIt started with sea anemones at a college lab. As an undergrad in Swarthmore College’s marine biology program, Farah Hussain, MD , used the organisms to study coral bleaching, where a coral turns white from stressors like high temperature or pollution—a tell-tale sign of climate change. That’s when her interest in environmental advocacy began....
READ MOREToday during World Health Worker Week, the World Health Organization (WHO) published guidance on Bilateral agreements on health worker migration and mobility . The guidance was developed by WHO and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with the International Labour Organization, as part of the Working for Health programme....
READ MOREThe healthcare industry is notoriously complex. Oscar Health, a healthcare technology company, believes in leveraging technology and data to serve patients at every step of their care. “Language models were the first time we thought, you can translate the messiness of the real world into a clear digitised plan,” said Mario Schlosser, Co-Founder...
READ MOREThe patient lies still on the operating table, softly inhaling the anesthetic gases that keep her safely sedated during surgery. Then she breathes out, and the anesthesia that wasn’t metabolized by her body—roughly 95 percent of the gas flowing through the anesthesia machine—is exhaled, unused and unchanged. That gas is then vented through the...
READ MOREThe top supplier of nurses globally, the Philippines is hit with a shortage of nurses at home. Retention strategies could involve creating a positive working environment that boosts nurses’ work satisfaction and career development The Philippines has been known as a major – if not the largest – exporter of nurses globally. It was estimated...
READ MOREDigital-native businesses’ (DNBs) deal-making, valuations, and exit activities were all down in 2023 in the European venture market, according to Atomico’s The State of European Tech 2023 . A market return to form that, however, can be considered a worldwide phenomenon. The key fundamentals that led to a downturn in the funding environment...
READ MOREThe efficient management of identities and access has become central to digital business. It determines the speed and agility with which an organization is able to operate or pursue new goals; it underpins employee productivity and enables operational efficiencies; and it is key to security, privacy, and compliance. Most organizations have deployed...
READ MOREOriginal Hope Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with unforeseen opportunities and challenges. Underlying its whole infrastructure was the intention to allow for collaboration, foster...
READ MOREClinical trials are how we discover new cures, and they can be a life-saving form of treatment. Paradigm is breaking down barriers in the healthcare industry with technology that brings clinical trials to more people, such as cancer patients, while reducing the paperwork burden for doctors and nurses to address clinician burnout. Clinical...
READ MORETeresa Rincon PhD, RN, FCCM Assistant Professor Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing UMass Chan Medical School USA Cited more than 100 times in other publications, A Second Set of Eyes: An Introduction to Tele-ICU was publi
READ MOREAmazon Bedrock is the best place to build and scale generative AI applications with large language models (LLM) and other foundation models (FMs). It enables customers to leverage a variety of high-performing FMs, such as the Claude family of models by Anthropic, to build custom generative AI applications. Looking back to 2021, when Anthropic...
READ MOREStatement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. My professional involvement with HIV goes back 30 years, to 1994 when I joined MSF-Belgium working on TB and HIV in Somalia. The world was a very different place; an HIV diagnosis was practically a death sentence, getting tested was a lengthy ordeal and treatment...
READ MOREPutting a computer inside someone’s brain used to feel like the edge of science fiction. It’s a reality . Academic and commercial groups are testing “brain-computer interface” devices to enable people with disabilities to function more independently. Yet Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, has put this technology front and center in debates about...
READ MOREKathleen MacMillan, MD, a diagnostic radiology resident at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Nitin Venugopal, MD, a radiology resident at UW Medicine in Seattle, are advocating for improved workplace ergonomics for radiologists. Often overlooked, the physical wellbeing of physicians is crucial, especially for radiologists who...
READ MOREBy Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , Director-General of the World Health Organization; Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , President-designate of COP 28 United Nations Climate Change Conference; and Dr Vanessa Kerry , WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, CEO of Seed Global Health In the face of one of the greatest health threats...
READ MOREMy dear readers, Happy New Year to you! 2024 is here! FINALLY! I hope you have had a good start so far. Well, well, well... another year, new thoughts, new challenges, and the good old resolutions? Hang on a minute- what are those? I have been out of the resolution department for years. In the past, I had made resolutions for...
READ MOREAccording to the National Cancer Institute , the incidence of cervical cancer in the United States has been steadily declining in recent decades, from an estimated 11.2 cases per 100,000 women in 1992 to 6.7 cases per 100,000 women in 2019. Statistics from other parts of the world, however, paint a substantially different picture. In the...
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