The way women are supported to start and grow businesses needs updating for the digital age, according to researchers from the University of East London.

Businesses must prepare for the wave of consumer concern around microplastics pollution amid the global push for increased regulation, disclosure and change.

Dr. Jeffrey Keller, Hibernia National Bank/Edward G. Schleider Endowed Chair at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and Sara Seifert, president of Minnesota HealthSolutions, have received a new National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to develop an innovative digital health platform that will help parents support teenagers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as they learn to drive. Teen drivers with ADHD represent one of the highest risk groups for motor vehicle crashes.

The Phase I SBIR award of $353,306, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, supports the collaboration between Pennington Biomedical and Minnesota HealthSolutions. 

A new study led by Swansea University has laid bare the devastating impact that soaring infant formula milk prices are having on the health, finances, and mental wellbeing of UK parents and their children.

Pharmaceutical spending has become increasingly focused on highly novel drugs in the last decade, driven primarily by increased use of innovative medicines rather than high prices on a few treatments.