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Type 2 Diabetes prevention week 2023

Finding out your risk of type 2 diabetes only takes a few minutes, but it could be the most important thing you do today…. Right now, millions of people across the UK are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is serious and every diagnosis is life changing. It’s a relentless condition, and […]

The British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre want to hear from you!

Researchers at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre are seeking public views to help design a new app that could better study how activity levels vary with changing heart health. The research team at the BHF Data Science Centre hope that a new app could give valuable insights into why heart and circulatory […]

Calling all local people living with COPD!

Calling all local people living with COPD! Join NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospital and partners on June 7th, 2023, at The Grange in Blackpool. Let’s break healthcare barriers together. Share your stories, conquer challenges. Email: bfwh.ebc.blackpool@nhs.net for more.

AI risks worsening health inequalities and harming patients, experts warn

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare settings may worsen health inequalities and harm patients, experts from the UK, US, Australia, Costa Rica and Malaysia have warned. AI has the potential to revolutionise healthcare, particularly in diagnostics, they said, but research has largely failed to consider the broader social threats it poses. In a […]