Innovative device tackles racial bias in health monitoring, ensuring accurate readings for all skin tones

Original research published in BMJ Innovations introduces a pioneering non-invasive device that corrects racial bias in haemoglobin and pulse oximetry measurements. Using green light and a proprietary algorithm to account for skin pigment, the Green Light Oximeter delivers accurate readings across all skin tones and age groups. Designed ...

2025-07-23T13:41:11+00:006 January 2025|BMJ Innovations, Group news, Our impact|

Air pollution linked to increased hospital admissions for mental/physical illness

Stricter environmental restrictions needed to curb impact in Scotland, conclude researchers Cumulative exposure to air pollution over several years is linked to a heightened risk of admission to hospital for mental/behavioural and physical illness, finds Scottish research published in the open access journal BMJ Open. Stricter environmental restrictions are needed to ...

2024-12-23T14:46:30+00:0018 December 2024|BMJ Open, Press release|

Women often told that severity of medical abortion pain no worse than period cramps

Many women unprepared for pain intensity; more realistic info needed to inform choice Women opting for a medical abortion at home are often advised that the procedure is likely to be no more painful than period cramps, suggest the results of a survey, carried out by the British Pregnancy Advisory ...

2024-12-23T14:44:48+00:0018 December 2024|BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, Press release|

Coaching trainees just before a procedure could improve patient safety

“Just-in-time” training could improve clinical outcomes, particularly among inexperienced clinicians, say researchers Giving inexperienced clinicians a quick coaching session with an expert just before they carry out a procedure boosts their success rate and could improve patient safety, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. Athletes and musicians ...

2024-12-17T12:02:31+00:0017 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers

Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, whose jobs require frequent spatial and navigational processing, have the lowest levels of death due to Alzheimer’s disease compared with other occupations, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The ...

2024-12-17T12:07:32+00:0017 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Investigation raises new concerns over landmark trial for top selling anti-platelet drug

Ticagrelor costs the US over $750m a year, but a BMJ investigation raises fresh doubts over the trustworthiness of the major clinical trial that brought the drug to market An investigation published by The BMJ today raises new concerns over the landmark clinical trial (PLATO) that was used to gain worldwide approval ...

2024-12-12T11:35:38+00:0012 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|
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