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Can we define ‘health data science’?

3 December 2019

Guest Blog: Dr Fizz Williamson, London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine

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Opinion

Sharing our Better Care programme

26 November 2019

British industry transformed through the 1990s – flow and pull concepts introduced by the Toyota Production System, automation of plants, factories and design all improved consistency,...

Opinion

Addressing the risk of inequalities in genomic medicine with new colleagues

19 November 2019

Over the last few months it has been exciting to see how quickly a new international research team can be pulled together, when you share values, have a common goal and willingness to share...

Press release

Senior FDA Official to chair Health Data Research UK’s International Advisory Board

15 November 2019

Health Data Research UK has today announced that Principal Deputy Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr Amy Abernethy MD PhD, will chair Health Data Research UK’s...

HDR UK publication

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) in unconscious and systemically unwell patients using a mobile OCT device: a pilot study

7 November 2019

Liu X, Kale AU, Capewell N, Talbot N, Ahmed S, Keane PA, Mollan S, Belli A, Blanch RJ, Veenith T, Denniston AK. BMJ Open (2019) 9:e030882 Abstract Objective: This study aims to evaluate the...

Opinion

Podcast: Conversations in Science – October 2019

31 October 2019

Our new podcasts, hosted by our Science Manager, Melissa Lewis-Brown, will be shedding light on different aspects of Science.

Project

OpenPathology

GPs order blood tests for diagnosis, ongoing monitoring of health conditions, and screening, regularly as a core part of their work. However, there is wide variation in testing rates amongst...

Project

Learning public health system for preventing asthma attacks

Asthma is a leading cause of acute hospital admission in children in Scotland. The team will use a national, dynamic longitudinal cohort to link healthcare and cross-sectoral data with patient...

Project

Implementing and evaluating biomarker-based prescribing in routine care

We all vary in how our bodies handle medicines and many of these differences are inherited from our parents. Pharmacogenetics is the science of understanding these inherited differences, and...