Author: Katrina Megget

Mind-control technology might give you the heebie-jeebies but for people who are paralysed or can’t communicate it could change their life I magine if you could turn on the television simply by thinking it. Crazy? Well, it’s not that far-fetched. Progress in the brain-computer interface space is moving rapidly. Samsung, IBM and Philips are three big names exploring this area, and already the media has reported on a thought-powered toy helicopter and mind-controlled robotic arm. 

Tomorrow is the big day – 7 May; UK General Election day. 

The end of randomised control trials is on the cards, a healthcare data expert predicts. 

With just days before the UK General Election, the NHS is at the forefront of the campaign trail and the political parties have come out sparring. Labour, it seems, is staging an all-out war, pledging to repeal the Conservatives’ Health and Social Care Act 2012 and end the alleged shift towards privatisation. The Tories, on the other hand, are remaining steadfast, reiterating the relationship between a strong economy and a strong NHS. 

Medicine is going small – nano-small in fact. This is medicine practiced on the scale of less than 100 nanometres, tiny when compared with the diameter of a human hair, which is 80,000 nanometres. But while nanomedicine is on the small side, it promises to be big business.