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Talking Medicines builds a world class team
Hot off of the press on raising £1.1M Talking Medicines are building out a world class product and tech team to realise its mission of creating the world’s first social intelligence company for the pharmaceutical industry. In line with plans to scale up its AI-based...
Talking Medicines secures new funds from Tern PLC
Talking Medicines, the world’s first social intelligence company for the pharmaceutical industry, has received a significant boost with a £1.1 million funding deal to scale up its AI-based data technology platform for measuring patient sentiment. Tern Plc, the...
MedTech Integrates – The importance of listening to patient need
A couple of weeks ago our COO, Dr Elizabeth Fairley took part in a panel discussion about the feasibility of MedTech in the developing world and whether it can be a sustainable model.2 We represent a different proposition to the other panellists, their experience is...
The Prevalence of Mental Health Issues in The UK
The understanding of mental health has accelerated over the past decade, with the stigma slowly fading away. In the past year alone there has been a substantial shift with the government directly addressing the scale of the issue through making a £5 Million budget...
Long Covid
In the last weeks and months, we have seen real evidence that COVID-19 is around for good and that it is not just as the brief flu-like illness that we initially thought it was. Though it is true that most people only experience COVID-19 short term, it has become...
World Heart Day 2020
Today marks the twentieth World Heart Day (WHD). What is it and why is it so important? Established by the World Heart Federation (WHF), World Heart Day is all about bringing the cardiovascular community together to educate and inspire people all around the world to...
COVID-19 – The catalyst changing our health behaviour
We are in a period of limbo, having apparently weathered phase one of the Corona Virus wave. Now as autumn arrives we are bracing to see if we can avoid another peak over winter. Many of our past activities have resumed; we are back in bars, restaurants, gyms and...
Counterfeit medicines in Africa
What is a counterfeit medicine? A counterfeit medicine is a medical product which is substandard or falsified and therefore hasn’t undergone evaluation by any regulatory authority before making it to the correct patients. The WHO estimate that 10% of all medicines in...
Why text mining in social could be a game changer for personalised medicine
The improvement of tools to access information about diseases and treatments as well as the development of social media, is leading to more informed patients that want to be involved in their care. With an increasing number of patients with chronic conditions sharing...