Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in advanced talks to invest £1bn in UK’s Babylon Health, a digital health start-up used by the National Health Service. The investment is part of a new funding round for the start-up that will give Babylon “unicorn” status. London-based Babylon founded in 2013 by Ali Parsa, a British-Iranian entrepreneur…
The National Health Service opened the UK’s first ever cannabis treatment clinic in response to alarming levels of “skunk” induced psychosis, as tens and thousands of people are affected. Users of skunk, in the potent form of cannabis, are displaying symptoms of psychosis according to the psychiatrist leading the pilot clinic based in King’s College…
Kerala Superstar actor Mammooty introduced the new Pappu Zebra, the mascot of Kerala Police’s road safety awareness campaign in 3D animation through his Facebook page. The mascot created by Nandan Pillai was initially launched on June 3, 2009, and was so successful it won the International Media Safety Award for the best Road Safety awareness…
Tencent’s Artificial Intelligence program clinical trial in London, aims to diagnose patients with Parkinson’s disease, in partnership with a British start-up Medopad, who are planning to target not only Parkinson’s but also multiple sclerosis and psoriasis. Fan Wei head of Tencent’s Medical AI Lab said “We find our path is coming closer and…
Millions use escalator everyday safely but aaccidents are more prevalent although deaths are infrequent. There are more than 10, 000 reported injuries annually in United States alone. Most are slip and fall accidents, but 20 per cent of escalator deaths and accidents are the result of entrapment. Escalator accidents can leave you with severe trauma.…
In England and Wales, 30 per cent, around 10 million adults, 16 to 64 have tried the drug at least once, according to the annual crime survey. Cannabis is classified as a Class B or middle risk substance, as around the world or “420” – Cannabis users will be lighting up to celebrate “weed culture”…
Tests on three American blind patients – two men and a woman- who were legally blind produced exciting results according to Olav Hellebo, CEO of UK bio-tech Firm ReNeuron in Bridgend ,Wales. Before the procedure the three could read only the largest group of letter on a special eye test chart, as they had retinitis…
Men with beards harbour more germs in their whiskers than dogs carry on their fur according to Professor Andreas Gutzeit of Switzerland’s Hirslanden Clinic. In the study scientist wanted to discover if there was a risk that humans might pick up a dog-borne disease from an MRI scanner that was alsao used for examinations by…
Our diet is putting 11 million people into an early grave each year, according to an influential study by Lancet. Our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world. Too much Salt and too few whole grains – shortened the highest number of…
Following a Reuters report, that the company knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product, Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), Drug authorities in India visited some of Johnson & Johnson’s facilities yesterday and took tests and samples of its talcum powder. If a formal investigation would be launched into the…