Active+ low-cost, community-based rehabilitation and patient activation programme launched
Aseptika Ltd, Huntingdon announces the Active+ TM community-based, life-long rehabilitation and support programme, will be showcased in preparation for wide-spread adoption, at the Eastern AHSN Embracing Self-care event in Newmarket today.
Projexis Ltd is up and running in Milton Keynes
Projexis Ltd is delighted to say it is now up and running from new office space in Central Milton Keynes.
Supported self-care is key to improving health and wellbeing; reducing hospital admissions
Projects in the East of England have proven that a combination of supported self-care is empowering people to take back control of their health and wellbeing.
Cambridge Consultants develops smart implant breakthrough
MagLense, a breakthrough in through body wireless power transfer from product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants, is set to revolutionise the world of medical implants and consumer wearable devices.
Elpis BioMed closes funding round to commercialise platform for generating human cell types
Elpis BioMed Ltd, a University of Cambridge spin-out, applying its disruptive and proprietary “direct cell reprogramming” platform to produce pure, mature and highly consistent batches of human cell types for research, toxicology and drug development, has announced today that it has raised funds to bring its human cell products and services to market.
Shadow Transport team visits Stansted Airport to hear about growth plans and transformation
London Stansted yesterday (Weds) welcomed the Shadow Transport Secretary, Andy McDonald MP, and Shadow Aviation Minister, Karl Turner MP, to see how the airport is planning to make best use of its existing runway capacity and improve the UK’s global connectivity over the next decade.
Keyhole surgery more effective than open surgery for ruptured aneurysm
The use of keyhole surgery to repair ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is both clinically and cost effective and should be adopted more widely, concludes a randomised trial published by The BMJ.
Opinion: What can we learn about you from just one click?
How effective is psychological targeting in advertising? Dr Sandra Matz, a former PhD student at Cambridge now based at Columbia University, and her co-authors, including Dr David Stillwell from the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, have published a new study which demonstrates that companies only need one Facebook ‘like’ to effectively target potential customers.
Local children take over to have their say about life in Cambridge
Primary school children are set to have their say about making Cambridge a better place to live, at a special Takeover Day tomorrow (Friday 17 November).
How to choose the right digital marketing agency
Choosing the right social media marketing agency can have a significant impact on the way your brand is viewed and how successful your company becomes.
Mothercare conference focuses on 'Today, Tomorrow and Beyond'
It makes sense that a company centred around new life would want to focus on the future. The centrepiece of Mothercare’s supplier conference was a vision of “Today, Tomorrow and Beyond” — and making sure the future didn’t falter before it had started was Creative Solutions.
SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards: all lined up and ready for the off
The second SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards have been launched. Now the search is on for entries in a wide range of categories.
New 2D Superresolution mode for ZEISS Airyscan delivers 120 nanometer lateral resolution
Improved optical sectioning delivers higher resolution without the need to acquire a z-stack
Mission Therapeutics’ highlights positive Parkinson’s Disease USP30 target and inhibitor data
Mission Therapeutics is presenting two posters with new research and preclinical data from its USP30 inhibitor Parkinson’s disease programmes today at Neuroscience 2017, the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, in Washington, DC. The meeting is the world’s largest neuroscience conference.
Cambridge Ahead report explores provision of space for early-stage life science companies
Business and academic member organisation, Cambridge Ahead, today published the findings of its latest research into the provision of commercial R&D space for life sciences in the Cambridge area.
Medtech Accelerator Health Hack announced
Medtech Accelerator's next Health Hack - Frugal Innovation in Surgery - takes place on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th January 2018 at Cambridge Science Park. The organisers are keen to build on the success of the first Hackathon - Rehabilitation Technology.
Public urged to vote for the Broadland Flood Alleviation Project for top engineering award
People in The East of England are urged to back the Broadland Flood Alleviation Project to win the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) People’s Choice Award, which celebrates the best UK civil engineering projects that have made a positive impact on their local area and communities.
HiTeam CEO supports small businesses during Downing Street visit
Mark Layzell from HiTeam visited 10 Downing Street to discuss solutions to small business problems.
How can collaborative technology solve social challenges?
Nesta, the global innovation foundation, is once again calling for ideas. The second round of its ShareLab Fund, launched this week, will support and fund ideas that use collaborative digital platforms to address a social need, helping to relieve pressure on existing local public services.
Bango Platform enables 9pay wallet for Google Play users in Nigeria
Bango, the mobile payments company, announces that it has launched operator-billed payments for Google Play users with 9mobile in Nigeria. Through the 9mobile 9pay wallet, customers in Nigeria can pay for the wealth of media, games, apps and digital content in Google Play, with one-click, without the need to own a credit card or bank account.
Award victory for Ashtons Legal
Ashtons Legal came up trumps at the LawNet 2017 Awards last week, when winners were announced at the annual LawNet conference at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire.
Shooting Image clocks up its 650th business video
Shooting Image Ltd recently produced its 650th business film. This was for the launch of the Cambridge Innovation Park.
UltraSoC selected by Microsemi for growing RISC-V product range
UltraSoC announced that Microsemi, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, has licensed UltraSoC’s universal analytics and embedded intelligence platform for use in an expanding range of Microsemi products based on the RISC-V open source processor architecture.
Paul Johnson head of IFS to lecture in Cambridge
'Choices in public policy: evidence, fairness and the art of the possible’ is the title of a lecture by Paul Johnson, Chief Executive of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, taking place on Monday 4 December at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Stocks in Focus: Fidelity Special Values
This week Harry Scargill of NW Brown looks at at Fidelity Special Values (FSV), an investment trust that has recently released results for the year to 31 August 2017 and is celebrating five years under the management of Alex Wright.