Digital medical publisher, EPG Health, have launched a new website for healthcare professionals, Medthority, replacing their previous site, epgonline.org. To provide healthcare professionals (HCP) an enhanced user experience for accessing medical information online. Independent medical websites are HCPs’ preferred channel for accessing clinical information, with 96% rating them important (65% ‘very’ important). However, finding and
Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have all come together in a coordinated response in the wake of a stark warning from the NHS that scaremongering presented a risk to life as the number of cases in the UK rose to 373, with six deaths. The health service was moved to call out the risks associated with fake
Denmark’s Novo Nordisk has teamed up with US digital health company Noom on a project that will develop programmes to help people with obesity achieve and maintain weight loss. Noom has developed a weight-loss app and a personalised meal-planning service that it says is already used by more than 45 million people worldwide and helps
The 2022 Special Olympics USA Games Organizing Committee unveils its new original logo for the 2022 USA Games which for the first time in the organisation’s 50-year history, inspired and designed by nine artistic and talented Special Olympics athletes. Athletes from across the US gathered for a three-day workshop in Orlando, where they collaborated with
The health website and point-of-care company are partnering to bring health content “wrapped in empathy” to the doctor’s office, said Heidi Anderson, Chief Growth Officer at Outcome Health. “We saw synergy between the approach Verywell takes with content and the approach we’ve been looking for at Outcome Health,” she explained. “It stems from research we
A new augmented reality app aims to assist kids in improving their asthma inhaler technique in a bid to reduce emergency hospital admissions. The app, called MySpira, is available on iTunes and Google Play for £2.99 and has been developed for children aged between 6 and 13 years of age. MySpira includes eight fun modules that
Health comms agency Huntsworth has strengthened its presence in health economics and market access services with the acquisition of Creativ-Ceutical. The company says the buyout of Creativ-Ceutical (CC) will add strategic and technical capability and a global footprint to Huntsworth’s existing medical division MEDiSTRAVA. The acquisition will create a division employing 340 experts across 18 offices across
Health comms and market access group OPEN Health has merged with medical communications firm Peloton Advantage to broaden the range of services available to clients. The combined entity, which operates in seven locations across three continents housing around 520 employees, is working with 90% of the world’s top 40 pharmaceutical companies, the groups noted. David
Healthcare-focused advisory group Cello Health PLC has reported a rise in half-year profits, driven by another six months of strong growth from its Cello Health division. The company has two arms: Health, which provides expertise, processes, intellectual property and market knowledge spanning the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare equipment and consumer health sectors. And Signal, which
Rare diseases are not classified like other diseases Disease classifications generally look at similarities in causes or symptoms. Rare diseases are different, as the classification is based on prevalence. In Europe, a rare disease is defined as one that affects fewer than 1 in 2,000 people, while the American definition states that a rare disease
