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Low-income Hispanics with Type II diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in their blood sugar levels equivalent to those resulting from some glucose-lowering medications, researchers at the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute reported

For people with headache, seeing the neurologist by video for treatment may be as effective as an in-person visit, according to a Norwegian study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology

The University of Tampere and Tampere University Heart Hospital are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to recognise serious difficult to predict complications as early as possible in the home care of patients following a heart attack

The need to adopt a more value-based approach to healthcare is pressing, but some question if it is right to map the patient-centric model proposed by Harvard economist Michael Porter onto Europe’s universal health systems

With the number of cancer cases on the rise, stretched healthcare systems have to support more and more patients with troublesome symptoms and the side effects of treatment. Finnish start-up Noona has developed a mobile app to support self-management

Greater certainty about what types of digital health technology will be regulated by FDA will foster innovation and help the agency to devote more resources to higher risk priorities, says Scott Gottlieb

A study from Warwick University suggests peer-led self-management programmes have little impact on the quality of life or lung function of adolescents with asthma, but concludes more data is needed to provide evidence for this

Despite Brussels’ new emphasis on smart specialisation, there is an ongoing difficulty in capturing the value of EU cohesion policy

American dominance in biomedical research is shrinking, as international collaboration becomes ever more prominent

SKA South Africa project director Rob Adam goes on European roadshow to maintain interest in telescope still some years from being completed

The Prima initiative will tackle two of the root causes of migration - water and food scarcity around the Mediterranean basin

Researchers are split over whether to go after new EU research funds

The Helmut Horten Foundation has supported Zurich’s medical hub for many years. Now, a new donation to ETH will enable the strengthening of the Zurich-Ticino “health axis"

Combining the technical expertise of an engineer with the clinical expertise of a medical doctor can lead to the invention of the century

New research from the Centre for Resuscitation Science at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm South General (Söder) Hospital in Sweden shows that a specially constructed drone equipped with a defibrillator can be dispatched by alarm and delivered automatically to the site of a cardiac arrest long before an ambulance arrives. The results are published in the respected medical periodical JAMA.

EUA has released the third edition of its University Autonomy in Europe report

In the tenth edition of the Index, China becomes the first-ever middle income economy to be ranked in the top 25