Medical research

Complex diseases get the big data treatment

The big data explosion, which allows scientists to analyse factors such as people's lifestyles, genes and medical records to develop personalised treatments for conditions, has so far mostly benefitted rare diseases with ...

Oncology & Cancer

Experts call for virtual European cancer institute / infrastructure

A new article that addresses the challenges of cancer proposes combining innovative prevention and treatment strategies in a state-of-the-art virtual European Cancer Institute/Infrastructure that promotes sharing of the highest ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Scientists examine use of big data for infectious disease surveillance

Big data derived from electronic health records, social media, the internet and other digital sources have the potential to provide more timely and detailed information on infectious disease threats or outbreaks than traditional ...

Medical research

Big data for little creatures

While millions of people are fighting Zika with bug spray and long pants, researchers at the University of California, Riverside are using another tool—big data. By collecting and analyzing large datasets, they can track ...

Health

The therapeutic potential of health data

In the future, doctors won't be concerned about treating just a diseased organ – they'll be using a mass of data to get a holistic view of the state of their patients." This is how the Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment ...

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