HEALTH NOTES: Virtual Reality headsets to predict miscarriages trends now
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Experts may soon be able to predict which pregnancies will end in miscarriages using virtual reality (VR) headsets.
Researchers from Erasmus University Medical Centre in the Netherlands developed the system using ultrasound scans on women eight weeks into pregnancy. Each scan was modified into 3D and magnified until the embryo was the size of an adult, which was then inspected by experts using VR headsets that enabled them to move around and spot any issues.
Analyses showed those that were developing unusually slowly were less likely to make it full term.
Experts may soon be able to predict which pregnancies will end in miscarriages using virtual reality (VR) headsets
NHS to ramp up training in autism
More than 1,300 NHS psychiatrists are to undergo training to radically improve their knowledge of autism.
Professor Ashok Roy, a consultant psychiatrist who will lead the two-year programme developed by Health Education England, said it aims to stop autistic people being unnecessarily admitted to mental health hospitals.
Autism affects about 700,000 people in the UK
