18th Mar 2024
“With an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths in 2020, cancer is a major global health threat”. This, quoted in the European Patent Office (EPO) “Patents and innovation against cancer” report of February 2024, highlights the scale of the challenge to researchers in the fight against this devastating disease.
18th Oct 2023
Today (18th October 2023) is World Menopause Day. According to the NHS, this day is needed to: “raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support available for improving health and wellbeing for those experiencing menopause.” Currently in the U.K. there are an estimated 13 million peri or post-menopausal women, with 77%[1] finding at least […]
23rd Aug 2023
The non-invasive glucose monitoring device market is anticipated to progress substantially over the coming years. Industry expansion is likely to be propelled by the ever increasing prevalence of diabetes in modern society. According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), around 540 million adults (20-79 years) have diabetes, with almost half unaware that they have the condition. The IDF Diabetes Atlas projects the number of people living with diabetes will rise to 643 million by 2030 and to 783 million by 2045. Those who are diagnosed are required to frequently monitor their blood glucose levels to ensure they are at a safe level.
6th Apr 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates its 75th birthday tomorrow, 7 April, marking another World Health Day.
23rd Mar 2023
The Digital Health Rewired event was a showcase for the UK and Ireland’s Digital Health innovators. Many of the exhibitors and speakers are involved in the digital transformation of the primary healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on leveraging patient data and on process optimisation. Much of the technology was directed to handling patient data during various stages of the patient journey, with some offerings additionally focussing on ensuring data privacy and security.
19th Dec 2022
In this insight, we look at the field of telemedicine. We give a summary of the kinds of technologies the field contains as well as some patent filing statistics indicating the most active companies currently in the market.
11th Aug 2022
The amount of data generated in life sciences is increasing exponentially. This has largely been precipitated by the advent of “-omics” technologies which facilitate high-throughput measurement of all molecules of a certain type from a biological sample. Whereas once a PhD project may have been concerned with analysing the expression of a single gene, nowadays a PhD project more likely involves collecting information about the expression of all genes in multiple cell types and conditions. This has left researchers data-rich, but not necessarily information-rich. However, machine learning approaches can be used to interrogate these large datasets for trends or patterns to provide information.
25th Jul 2022
Drugs vs. Medical Devices – Imbalances in European IP protection