Handheld device could transform heart disease screening

Researchers have developed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes as a tool for detecting certain types of heart disease.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 8, 2025 ~5 min

Scientists develop ‘smart pyjamas’ to monitor sleep disorders

Researchers have developed comfortable, washable ‘smart pyjamas’ that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea at home, without the need for sticky

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 18, 2025 ~6 min


Team’s hip replacement surgery invention is set to be world first

Technology that could transform the future of hip replacement surgery is being pioneered by a team of experts in Cambridge.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 13, 2024 ~3 min

Five hubs launched to ensure UK benefits from quantum future

A major new research hub led by the University of Cambridge and UCL aims to harness quantum technology to improve early diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 26, 2024 ~6 min

Training AI models to answer ‘what if?’ questions could improve medical treatments

Machines can learn not only to make predictions, but to handle causal relationships. An international research team shows how this could make medical

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 19, 2024 ~5 min

Having a ‘regular doctor’ can significantly reduce GP workload, study finds

If all GP practices moved to a model where patients saw the same doctor at each visit, it could significantly reduce doctor workload while improving patient

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 23, 2024 ~5 min

Outstanding Cambridge biomedical and health researchers elected to Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship 2023

Seven Cambridge University researchers are among the 59 biomedical and health researchers elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 18, 2023 ~11 min

Gone fishing: highly accurate test for common respiratory viruses uses DNA as ‘bait’

A new test that ‘fishes’ for multiple respiratory viruses at once using single strands of DNA as ‘bait’, and gives highly accurate results in under an hour,

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Jan. 16, 2023 ~6 min


Fitness levels can be accurately predicted using wearable devices – no exercise required

Cambridge researchers have developed a method for measuring overall fitness accurately on wearable devices – and more robustly than current consumer

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 1, 2022 ~8 min

Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health

Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 30, 2022 ~5 min

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