Medical

NHS GP Dr Gero Baiarda is one of the hundreds of GPs currently on-call at GPDQ - the UK’s GP-on-demand service. Since launching his ‘myth-busting’ series ten days ago Dr Baiarda has become the media ‘go-to’ for information on what to believe in the interest of our health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In China, the biotech company CanSino is working together with the military medical department to develop a vaccine against the Covid-19 virus. The researchers are supported by products from Minebea Intec. These play an important role in the manufacturing process and ensure that high-precision weighing and dosing is possible.

Thirona and Delft Imaging have launched CAD4COVID. This new artificial intelligence tool analyses X-ray images and is intended to support healthcare specialists manage COVID-19 cases. The companies have made the tool available free-of-charge in support of the crisis.

In these times of national emergency, it is important that we all do whatever we can to help those who are battling on the front line to help keep us safe; Welltek has taken the initiative to provide technology based furniture to a London NHS hospital.

Two versions of its FeedThrough connectors aimed at manufacturers of medical diagnostic and treatment equipment have been launched by Cliff Electronics.

The Uncomplicated Family (TUF) Corporate Group, a group of companies leading global projects in the digital therapeutics space, has announced the launch of Kids Digital Health - a collection of universally accessible serious games and content for children and families with complex needs.

The COVID-19 Volunteer Testing Network has launched to provide essential additional testing capacity to front-line workers. The project, started by Mike Fischer CBE, helps small laboratories convert to run critical antigen testing and identify cases among local healthcare workers - at no cost to Government.

In its recently published report ‘Innovations in Robotic Surgery 2020-2030’, IDTechEx forecasted that the robotic surgery market will reach over $12 billion by 2030. The report breaks down the market landscape and emerging technologies in the field of robotic surgery.

Production quantities of its mass air flow sensors, which are a key component for ventilators and other medical equipment continue to be shipped by Posifa Technologies.

A consortium of significant UK industrial, technology and engineering businesses from across the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors, have come together to produce medical ventilators for the UK.