SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news.
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01:52 - Forbes 30 Under 30
13:20 - Forbes 30 Under 30 Alumnus Develops Diagnostic Tool for Menopause
24:20 - 2025 Wrapped
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SomX’s James Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with Ross O'Brien from The XR Health Alliance.
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01:11 - Major Report Maps UK’s Extended Reality (XR) Health Market
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news.
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12:16 - MANUAL Is In The MONEY
16:10 - Got a Clue? Well Yes, Since You Asked…
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with help from Numan's Grace Hatton and SomX's James Somauroo.
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03:02 - NHS Job Cuts: The £1 Billion Bureaucracy Bonfire
12:12 - Women's Health Being Shadow Banned?
27:05 - OpenAI Wants To Push Beyond a Core AI Offering
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SomX’s James Somauroo and Curistica's Dr Keith Grimes dive into this week's healthtech news.
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01:02 - The NHS’s “Wild West” of 10,000 Unchecked Health Apps
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news.
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02:26 - NHS launches AI-powered tool to speed up prostate cancer diagnosis
16:38 - Do we need AI guardians to protect us from health information overload? // The anatomy of a personal health agent
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SomX’s Belle Taylor and The BMJ's Helen Surana, dive into this week's healthtech news.
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02:35 - Government announces Women's Health Strategy to be renewed
19:40 - Cyclana Bio raises £5m to boost women's health
29:09 - Scientists develop breakthrough approach to detecting endometriosis in menstrual blood
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SomX’s Belle Taylor and Harry Salt, dive into this week's healthtech news.
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01:50 - Oura hits $11bn valuation after $900m Series E
18:41 -First look at Hello Heart’s AI assistant for medication management:
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Nick Prentice, healthcare strategist, dive into this week's healthtech news.
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05:40 - NHS launches virtual hospital
23:05 - Lauxera Capital closes €400M health tech fund, bets big on European innovation going global
35:00 - Fast-growing healthtech platform Heidi raises $65m and boosts valuation to $465m
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news.
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18:40 - NHS launches virtual hospital
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news with help from Whereby's Niki Loboda and Hannah Jelliman
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02:44 - The State of Virtual Care
33:43 - World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news with help from BoobyBiome's Lydia Mapstone.
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news with help from BoobyBiome's Lydia Mapstone.
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and DNV's Stephen McAdam dive into this week's healthtech news.
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03:53 - Digital Health Gains Still Out of Reach, BMJ Commission Finds
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news.
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01:48 - Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt
18:25 - Soul Machines unveils empathetic AI ‘Digital Workforce’ for healthcare
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Amy Thomas dive into this week's healthtech news.
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02:10 - Are AI Chatbots Making Mental Health Crises Worse? // Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI
30:40 - Mounjaro price inequality in full play
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo, Amy Thomas and Taffy Kahari dive into this week's healthtech news.
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01:40 - The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst
18:36 - MND left her without a voice. Eight seconds of scratchy audio gave it back to her
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo, Amy Thomas and Hollie Ruda are joined dive into this week's healthtech news.
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02:34 - Beyond the AI buzz: Nina Capital’s critical view on healthtech hype
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SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Amy Thomas are joined Sanome's Benedikt von Thüngen as they dive into this week's healthtech news.
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27:03 - ChatGPT adds mental health guardrails after reports of bot feeding people’s delusions
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Daisy, Belle and Hollie from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter.
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01:26 Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork
12:19 Why VC-Backed Longevity Startups Are Dying In A $5 Trillion Wellness Market
23:58 This DNA test can predict if a 5-year-old will be obese as an adult
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