Health

Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea

Workplace safety org identifies 26 hazards in the chipmaking process

Systems30 May 2024 | 10

Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won't bite

Adios, dentures?

Science13 May 2024 | 50

Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon

Relax! It's for low-gravity exercise

Science03 May 2024 | 41

KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout

Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board

Public Sector16 Apr 2024 | 7

Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers

Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives

Public Sector28 Mar 2024 | 21

Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB

Updated Exclusive Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement'

Databases22 Mar 2024 | 87

World's first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions

While excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done

Science21 Mar 2024 | 12

Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns

Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report

Databases29 Feb 2024 | 12

NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion

Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer 'agile and flexible' approach

SaaS13 Feb 2024 | 28

Ignore Uncle Sam's 'voluntary' cybersecurity goals for hospitals at your peril

Interview What is on HHS paper will most likely become law, Google security boss says

Cyber-crime05 Feb 2024 | 12

Ransomware attacks hospitalizing security pros, as one admits suicidal feelings

Untold harms of holding the corporate perimeter revealed in extensive series of interviews

Cyber-crime18 Jan 2024 | 23

Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next

Heads up, this isn't about Elon

Science12 Jan 2024 | 94

Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared

Gulp!

Science10 Jan 2024 | 46

COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave

US, Netherlands, Germany all show spikes while UK no longer collects data

Science09 Jan 2024 | 166

No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it'

Science29 Nov 2023 | 35

Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids

'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white'

Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15

Long-term space missions may make liftoff harder for male astronauts

Study suggests galactic cosmic radiation could damage below-the-belt tissues

Bootnotes23 Nov 2023 | 35

Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri

Alexa, am I wasted?

Science10 Nov 2023 | 12

Mac daddy Woz hospitalized in Mexico over mystery malady

State of Apple co-founder's health is unclear – it could be a stroke or vertigo

Bootnotes09 Nov 2023 | 17

Bored Ape NFT party is a real eyesore, say irritated attendees

They're ugly but UV lighting blamed for human damage, not the dumb idea

Offbeat06 Nov 2023 | 23

Infosec pros can secure IT, but have harder time securing job satisfaction

Industry facing burnout scare as workplace issues snowball

Security02 Nov 2023 | 2

NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program

One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space

Science02 Oct 2023 | 3

Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed

NHS also launches £2M project to engage patients with data strategy

Databases29 Sep 2023 | 14

Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss

Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe

Science20 Sep 2023 | 43

Pangolin-inspired robot can roll around your guts administering treatments

Flexing device works where surgeons find hard to reach

Science22 Jun 2023 | 4

Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls

Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold

Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13

Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'

Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union

AI + ML31 May 2023 | 20

Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans

Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases

PaaS + IaaS31 May 2023 | 11

Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder?

Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity

Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 138

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping

Science31 Mar 2023 | 117

Havana Syndrome definitely (maybe) not caused by brain-scrambling energy weapons

Pre-existing mental health issues and the stress of working in Cuba are more likely culprits

Bootnotes02 Mar 2023 | 36

Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans

£1.1M ambition to recruit 10,000 pros 'inadequate' says committee

Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 45

Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport

Surely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts

Science10 Feb 2023 | 30

UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards

Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm

Databases06 Feb 2023 | 23

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

Surely there are quicker and more effective ways to end your co-workers

Offbeat20 Jan 2023 | 208

Period-tracking apps, search engines on notice by draft law

And no more geofencing around health clinics either

Security18 Jan 2023 | 9

Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer

An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure

AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 1

Breast cancer screening AI app OK'd by watchdog

When putting software on trial is a good thing

AI + ML15 Dec 2022 |

US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy

Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers

Science05 Dec 2022 | 22

Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info

Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win'

PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57

Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust

'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly'

Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 30

UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform

Does spy-tech supplier have a head start in bidding for the controversial deal it considers a 'must win'?

Databases21 Nov 2022 | 37

Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse

All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed

Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 11

Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database

PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41

Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health

Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit

Science21 Oct 2022 | 18

AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack

If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models?

AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19

Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids

Wait, wait, hear us out

Science01 Oct 2022 | 33

NYC issues super upbeat PSA for surviving the nuclear apocalypse

It's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll be fine

Science12 Jul 2022 | 59

UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England

NHS App role expanded following perceived COVID-era success

PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2022 | 62

Half of developers still at screens even during breaks

Going for a walk: Good. Doomscrolling: Bad

Software11 May 2022 | 33

Can AI transformer models help design drugs and treat incurable diseases?

Special report From protein prediction to drug generation, neural networks are revolutionizing medication

AI + ML09 May 2022 | 8

Algorithm can predict pancreatic cancer from CT scans well before diagnosis

Software picks up subtle clues human doctors miss

AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 18

'Virtually no difference' between AI and humans in diagnosing prediabetes

Is that... a good or bad thing?

AI + ML06 Apr 2022 | 25

AI drug algorithms can be flipped to invent bioweapons

Our model took mere hours to suggest 40,000 potentially lethal compounds, says startup

AI + ML18 Mar 2022 | 40

Fujitsu claims world leadership in headache management

For actual headaches, not tech messes, but hasn't said why its staff have a problem that needed tackling

Science04 Mar 2022 | 14

Stressed-out IT workers, software devs – we're not being funny but have you tried rebooting your breathing?

Forget productivity, find a way to unplug and recover

Devops17 Sep 2021 | 27