- Expert calls for UK to pivot towards prevention rather than cure.
The creation of a “pre-NHS” focusing on preventive healthcare could unlock billions for the UK within two decades, according to the head of a taskforce investigating radical new improvements to the nation’s wellbeing.
UK must move towards disease prevention to save economy and NHS, says expert | Health | The Guardian
- NIH review sees risks and benefits of AI in medical decision making.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that an artificial intelligence (AI) model solved medical quiz questions—designed to test health professionals’ ability to diagnose patients based on clinical images and a brief text summary—with high accuracy. However, the AI model made mistakes when describing images and explaining how its decision-making led to the correct answer.
- Stolen genes, tiny animals, and AMR
Tiny animals known as bdelloid rotifers could be one of the solutions to antimicrobial resistance.
- Significant boost to quantum hubs.
Over £100 million funding has been allocated to five quantum hubs. Workstreams could include quantum-assisted blood tests.
- Dementia diagnoses in England are at a record high.
Record numbers of people are being diagnosed with dementia in England, NHS figures show. The latest data shows a record 487,432 people in England in June had a diagnosis.
NHS England » Dementia diagnoses in England at record high
