Focus:
Big Data
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7 January 2019
NHS Long Term Plan: focus on R&D and digital innovation
The UK Government has launched the NHS Long Term Plan laying out the health service's focuses for the next decade. Two of the most interesting aspects are better focused R&D...
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4 January 2019
Data overload: turning challenges into opportunities in clinical trials
Clinical research is creating more data than ever before, but are we making the most of it or are we at risk of getting overwhelmed by the sheer amount of...
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4 December 2018
Will tech giants like Amazon and Google change the pharma sector forever?
The world’s tech giants have recognised vast business opportunities in the healthcare space, and could soon threaten established drug developers and high street pharmacies. What will they have to do...
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13 November 2018
Genomic study directly links depression to obesity
A genomic study conducted by the University of Exeter, UK, and the University of South Australia has found that higher body mass index (BMI) has a strong psychological association with...
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9 November 2018
Margrethe Vestager: “Time is over” for digital world to escape the rules
The European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has told technology companies that the "time is over" for them to escape rules in the digital world that apply in the offline...
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25 October 2018
Could building a unique brain fingerprint predict a drug’s effectiveness?
The Montreal Neurological Institute has created a novel approach to treatment neurodegenerative disorders, called a personalised therapeutic intervention fingerprint. This personalised medicine breakthrough could revolutionise how a whole variety of...
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4 October 2018
NHS Genomic Medicine Service: the UK seeks to build a global genomic hub
This October NHS England will launch its Genomic Medicine Service building on the 100,000 Genomes project with the aim to integrate revolutionary genomic technology into the diagnosis and treatment work...
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22 August 2018
MyMeds&Me: boosting drug safety with big data and smart tech
MyMeds&Me was created with the goal of simplifying the reporting of drug safety issues to pharmaceutical companies. MyMeds&Me founder and CEO Andrew Rut discusses the pharmacovigilance sector, what the company’s...
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1 August 2018
TriNetX: using real-world data to improve clinical research
Pfizer recently announced that it is joining TriNetX, a global health research network that provides anonymised, real-world patient data from electronic health records, tumour registries, pathology reports and other medical...
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25 July 2018
Britain needs to improve data skills to survive post-Brexit
As a nation, Britain currently lacks the data skills to realise the full potential of data analytics in a post-Brexit economy, according to multiple studies.