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The health care industry continues to be one of the biggest opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors, which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. 

Here, Bailey talks about the specific struggles healthcare entrepreneurs face and how they can build new opportunities with partnerships. 
Why It’s Hard For Healthcare Startups To Raise Money Funding holds back many healthcare startups, Bailey says. “As an early-stage healthcare company, the barriers and hurdles of entering the businesses are quite high. There are regulatory hurdles. The industry is overall expensive. As an early-stage startup with not a lot of funding or resources, it’s hard to make progress quickly. It takes longer for you to build a compelling company that’s capable of attracting investments. Not to say it’s impossible, but it is definitely harder than in some other industries.”

People dealing with addiction and trauma tend to “live in their heads”—their minds are frequently racing or caught up in obsessive thinking. They may abuse their bodies, drink too much and fail to eat or sleep properly.

Tom Kerridge lost 11 stone in a bid to turn his life around. This recipe below from his latest book is a snapshot of how he achieved his remarkable goal. The secret? A focus on gutsy, generous satisfaction, not deprivation.

Roasted lamb rump with turnip fricassée 
SERVES 4. HANDS-ON TIME 45 MIN, OVEN 
TIME 5-6 MIN

A professor from The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) has invented a breath monitor that can detect the flu. 
Gouma and her team relied on existing medical literature to determine the quantities of known biomarkers present in a person’s breath when afflicted with a particular disease, then applied that knowledge to find a combination of sensors for those biomarkers that is accurate for detecting the flu.

The Google's artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer DeepMind may be able speed up cancer detection. 
The software can now tell the difference between healthy and cancerous tissue, as well as discover if metastasis has occured.

More than 8,000 children under 14 were admitted into hospital in 2016 with a primary diagnosis of sleep disorder - up from below 3,000 in 2006. The number has steadily increased year-on-year for nearly two decades. 

The figures relate to data compiled by the U.K. National Health Service and they have been analyzed by BBC for a special documentary due to be broadcast next week.