Tom Adeyoola selected as preferred candidate for Chair of Innovate UK
- Tech entrepreneur and Metail founder Tom Adeyoola selected as preferred head of Innovate UK as the government ramps up plans to drive growth.
- Backing businesses across the UK, Innovate UK invests in game-changing innovation, from advanced AI to zero-emission transport, fuelling our Plan for Change.
- Under Tom’s leadership, Innovate UK will accelerate efforts to scale up British innovation and turn cutting-edge research into real-world impact, helping businesses grow and compete on a global stage.
Clade I mpox no longer considered a high consequence infectious disease
- Along with the other public health agencies in the UK, Public Health Wales has confirmed that Clade Ia and Ib mpox will no longer be classified as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) following a review of available evidence by the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens.
- The decision has been taken because the evidence related to this clade no longer meets the criteria for an HCID, which includes having a high mortality rate and a lack of available interventions.
- It is important to note that the decision does not mean that Clade I mpox no longer has public health consequences, as the World Health Organization (WHO) still classifies the disease as a public health emergency of international concern.
Type 2 diabetes increases risk of liver and pancreatic cancers, study shows
- People who develop type 2 diabetes face an increased risk of some of the most lethal cancers, including liver and pancreatic tumours, with the greatest rises in women, research suggests.
- The analysis of health records from 95,000 people found that the risk of pancreatic cancer was nearly twice as high, and the chance of developing liver cancer almost five times as high, in women recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
- The chances of developing the cancers rose in men too, with new-onset type 2 diabetes linked to a 74% increase in pancreatic cancer and a near quadrupling in the risk of liver cancer in the five years afterwards.
Scans in shopping centres and AI – can ideas like these help save the NHS?
- BBC Panorama spent months in South Yorkshire meeting people already changing how they work, to see what it will take to fix a health service which is buckling under increasing demand.
