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The term ‘stroke’ being classed as a health condition & symptom
Of interest to us, health conditions are defined differently by patients and doctors. One example that we have come across recently in our annotation data, is the description of the term ‘stroke’. A stroke as we are all aware is a life-threatening event that happens...
How we can help fight the global cardiovascular health crisis
Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death globally (CDC). CVD takes an estimated 17.9 million lives each year and accounts for a quarter of all deaths in the states and the UK (BHF). There are many medical risk factors that can contribute to...
The impact of coronavirus on ethnic minorities
Over the last few months we have seen an alarming number of deaths in ethnic minority groups due to coronavirus. In fact, the figures show that the death rate for Black and Asian people is four and three times greater respectively than for White people (Public Health...
How have we been lending a hand to the COVID-19 effort?
COVID-19 is undoubtedly having an impact on patient populations. During this challenging time, Talking Medicines have been doing their bit to support the Medsmart® community whilst sharing data insight from greater patient populations to add value to Government data,...
Week 9 of government advised lockdown: COVID-19 survey update
Talking Medicines have now captured 1,827 responses across five surveys showing the public opinions to COVID-19. Outreach engagement is via direct Facebook from the Medsmart® community to understand the attitudes, views and behaviour changes in the community towards...
COVID-19 – Why the gender disparity?
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of speculation over what exacerbates an individual’s response to coronavirus and why there is such great disparity in the gender of those dying from this virus. One explanation being explored is the effect of Angiotensin...
COVID-19:Week 7 Survey update and the impact of the pandemic on mental health
Week 7 of Government advised lockdown: Talking Medicines have now captured nearly 1500 responses (n=1,479) across four surveys showing the public attitudes to COVID-19. Outreach engagement is via direct Facebook from the Medsmart® community to understand the...
Old drug, new tricks?
As a population, two viable options are presented for us to escape our virus-inflicted confinement: gain herd immunity or find a vaccine. The former is a perilous tactic, that carries the risk of many more fatalities and no guarantee of immunity post-infection. The...
Medsmart® is back on TV
The Medsmart® TV Campaign is back on air from Monday. We want to support people with the free Medsmart® App, with features to stay on top of medications, keep an active list and use reminders. The Ad has already been run very successfully in March, it has been updated...