Global Health & Pharma

07/09/2026

Nominations are now open for the Women’s Health Awards 2026! 🧘‍♀️🌸

These awards celebrate the outstanding organisations, practitioners, innovators, and advocates advancing women’s health and wellbeing worldwide. From specialist healthcare and femtech to wellness services, community initiatives, and vital advocacy, we’re shining a spotlight on those making a meaningful difference. 💙🩺

Submitting a nomination is an opportunity to recognise exceptional achievements, celebrate dedicated teams, and showcase the important work shaping the future of women’s healthcare. 🌍✨

Nominate a deserving business, organisation, team, or professional today! 👉 https://zurl.co/CCFRQ

⚠️ Please Note:
Our judging process is merit-based and not influenced by vote numbers. To maintain the integrity of the awards, we accept only one vote per company. If you've already voted, additional submissions for the same company will not be counted.

01/09/2026

📱 Could digital tools help bridge the gap between wanting to drink less and seeking traditional support?

Unconscious Moderation is designed for people who recognise that alcohol may be affecting their wellbeing but don’t identify with dependency-focused services. Its self-hypnosis drink tracker focuses on understanding the cues and behaviours behind drinking, offering a private and accessible approach to building healthier habits.

🔗 Read more: https://zurl.co/cqn7H

In 2014, researchers at the CDC and SAMHSA analysed survey responses from 138,100 US adults and found that roughly 90% of people drinking at excessive levels did not meet the criteria for alcohol dependence (Esser et al., Preventing Chronic Disease).

29/08/2026

⌚ Technology is transforming patient registries from static data repositories into powerful platforms for real-world evidence.

Ian Bonzani and Joydeep Sarkar of IQVIA explore how AI, wearable devices, mobile technology and improved interoperability are reducing data collection burdens while creating richer, more representative patient datasets. The result? Better insights that can support research, healthcare decision-making and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

🔗 Read more: https://zurl.co/hl6pW

Patient registries continue to evolve into data sources that can simultaneously support research, care management tools and policy development. As technology and standards reduce barriers to data access, collection, integration and analysis, registries continue to become valuable and strategic platf...

27/08/2026

📱 Healthcare is no longer confined to hospitals and clinics, it’s increasingly happening wherever patients are.

From remote patient monitoring and EHR-integrated portals to digital document workflows and AI-assisted triage, technology is transforming how patients access and manage their care. But successful digital healthcare depends on more than a great app, it requires connected records, seamless systems and efficient workflows working behind the scenes.

🔗 Read more: https://zurl.co/x1iI4

$427 billion. That's roughly what the world will spend on digital health tools in 2026, and less than half of that money has anything to do with a hospital building. $427 billion. That's roughly what the world will spend on digital health tools in 2026, and less than half of that money has anything....

20/08/2026

💜 Turning unimaginable loss into a movement for change.

After losing her 11-year-old son Leo to Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), award-winning technology entrepreneur Emma O’Brien founded Leo’s Angels to help transform epilepsy care. The growing national movement is bringing families, clinicians, researchers, business leaders and technology specialists together to advance research, improve connected care and harness digital innovation to create better outcomes for children and families.

🔗 Read more: https://zurl.co/I5UqZ

Leo’s Angels, the memorial fund dedicated to harnessing technology to transform epilepsy care and save lives, is launching a national movement to raise vital awareness and funds for the cause.

12/08/2026

🧬 Making AI work in healthcare requires more than promising technology, it needs meaningful integration, clinical engagement and trust.

In this exclusive interview with the AI Speakers Agency, Professor Jackie Hunter CBE explores where AI is already delivering value in healthcare, how pharmaceutical companies can move beyond isolated pilots, and why data quality, bias and transparency must remain central as adoption grows.

🔗 Read more: https://zurl.co/3QpNp

In this exclusive interview with the AI Speakers Agency, Jackie discusses where AI is already delivering value in healthcare, how pharmaceutical companies can move beyond isolated pilots and the ethical questions that must be addressed as adoption grows. In this exclusive interview with the AI Speak...