Evotec has announced the next phase of its company overhaul, dubbed Horizon, that will see 800 people lose their jobs in a bid to cut €75m in costs.
Creation of EmpowerMe Website to Promote Self-Efficacy in Survivors of Stroke: Co-Design Study
Background: Digital health innovations are frequently used to support people in managing chronic health conditions. Stroke is common, and people who have survived a stroke and live in the community must learn to manage their health independently. Digital tools can help, but only if designed to match survivors’ specific needs. In response to a need […]
Eisai joins with Pokémon for sleep awareness drive
Eisai has launched a campaign to raise awareness of sleep disorders in Japan, via a partnership with smartphone app Pokémon Sleep.
Lilly warns of impurity risk in certain compounded forms of Mounjaro and Zepbound
Compounded forms of the molecule behind Eli Lilly’s metabolic blockbusters Mounjaro and Zepbound that have vitamin B12 added to them may be unsafe, Lilly said Thursday. Lilly and its fellow GLP-1-based drugmaker Novo Nordisk have …
Eisai chooses ‘Pokémon Sleep’ app to battle bad sleep habits in awareness campaign
According to a new team-up between Eisai and Pokémon, when it comes to healthy sleep habits, people of all ages have gotta catch ’em all.
NVIDIA sinks $2bn into AI cloud provider Nebius
NVIDIA has agreed a $2 billion partnership with AI cloud provider Nebius to ramp up infrastructure as demand soars in the life sciences.
Non-hormonal pill for menopause hot flushes approved by NHS
NHS approves a non-hormonal pill for menopause hot flushes and night sweats, offering a new treatment option for women who cannot or prefer not to use HRT A new non-hormonal pill for menopause hot flushes and night sweats has been approved for NHS use, potentially helping around 500,000 women in England. The treatment offers an […]
Novo Holdings’ assets fell by a third in 2025 as Novo Nordisk’s value sank
Novo Holdings, the parent company of Novo Nordisk, saw the value of the assets it manages fall by more than a third over the course of 2025, mainly due to a massive drop in the …
“I need to feel safe before I can engage”: embedding trauma-informed principles in sexual and reproductive health digital technologies
BackgroundThe use of digital health technologies to access information and services related to sexual and reproductive health has been increasing. Despite the usefulness of these technologies, there are emerging concerns that they could inadvertently trigger, perpetuate and exacerbate trauma among patients. The purpose of this study was to explore trauma-informed care principles that could be […]
SiliconMind-V1: Multi-Agent Distillation and Debug-Reasoning Workflows for Verilog Code Generation
arXiv:2603.08719v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for automating Verilog code generation; however, existing methods primarily emphasize syntactic correctness and often rely on commercial models or external verification tools, which introduces concerns regarding cost, data privacy, and limited guarantees of functional correctness. This work proposes a […]
Adaptive RAN Slicing Control via Reward-Free Self-Finetuning Agents
arXiv:2603.10564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Generative AI models into AI-native network systems offers a transformative path toward achieving autonomous and adaptive control. However, the application of such models to continuous control tasks is impeded by intrinsic architectural limitations, including finite context windows, the lack of explicit reward signals, and the degradation of […]
Personalizing explanations of AI-driven hints to users’ characteristics: an empirical evaluation
arXiv:2403.04035v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The paper extends an existing Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) that supports students’ learning via AI-driven personalized hints and can generate explanations to justify why/how the hints were generated. In this work, we investigate personalizing these hint explanations to students with low levels of two traits, Need for Cognition and Conscientiousness […]