Health

The EU wants scientists to find out exactly how environmental factors, including lifestyle and climate change, drive the development of non-communicable disease

The genomics revolution has brought personalised medicine to cancer and rare diseases, but cardiovascular care is stuck in the past. An EU-funded initiative aims to change that

The Paediatric Regulation has “basically forced” companies to tailor drugs for use by children, but more work is needed to plug gaps in the area of childhood rare diseases

A major new study into autism and mental health problems is being launched today in a collaboration between the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of Birmingham, Aston University, Coventry University and UK autism research charity Autistica.

The apps will improve self-care, adherence to therapy and long-term outcomes in this common, chronic condition, its developers say. The app for healthcare professionals will be one of the first such m-health apps to be CE-approved

The company aims to develop a new class of therapeutics for respiratory viral infections

Fears that the EU will give up its involvement in health won’t go away. A big concern is that the next president of the Commission “might abolish” its responsibilities, says Austria’s director-general for health

Developing new antibiotics, from the first idea to proof of concept. The German-Australian iCAIR project brings together researchers from Fraunhofer ITEM, the MHH in Hannover and Griffith University in Australia.