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Overview Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a highly prevalent form of dementia – the genetic variations underlying the disease are poorly understood and the number and effectiveness of drug...
Overview Case notes and other texts written by clinicians are an invaluable source of data about disease and treatment. This study presents new thinking on how they can be analysed to gain greater...
Overview With some ethnic minority groups and areas of deprivation suffering higher levels of severe outcomes from COVID-19, it is all the more important to ensure equitable access to, and uptake...
Overview UK scientists recognised early in the pandemic that viral genomic sequencing would be a powerful tool in monitoring the evolution and spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19....
Overview As vaccines were rolled out across the UK, the next step in combating COVID-19 was to establish their level of effectiveness and identify the groups most at risk from death or serious...
Phenotype libraries aim to provide the disease definitions researchers need to extract data from electronic health records (EHRs). But the phenotype definitions they hold are often in different...
Overview Advances in oncotherapies have been highly successful in cutting breast cancer death rates. But a major clinical dilemma has emerged as the treatments leave some survivors facing a...
Overview Researchers have used new artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to identify which patients with heart failure do, or do not, benefit from beta blockers. Their approach interrogates data...
Overview The identification of new biomarkers for disease can provide a valuable indication of an individual’s risk of certain illnesses and even indicate the best treatments. This makes it an...
