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Over the past 30 years, cancer control measures have led to rising life expectancy in rich populations, but these gains have yet to be seen in poorer populations, according to a study in the British Medical Journal

The evidence that cognitive training, blood pressure management and increased physical activity might slow cognitive decline and the onset of dementia is encouraging but insufficient to justify a public health campaign focused on their adoption, according to a new report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

A European network has been created to bring the power of numbers to uncovering the causes of sudden cardiac arrest and compare outcomes of different treatments

Whole genome sequencing involving the analysis of all three billion pairs of letters in an individual’s DNA has been hailed as a technology that will usher in a new era of predicting and preventing disease

New details of long-awaited Council emerge in draft work programme

EU research commissioner hopes study by former WTO head can help persuade Commission colleagues, member-states to boost research spending

Former WTO chief Pascal Lamy sets out a wide range of ideas to reform EU research and innovation programmes, starting a yearlong campaign to secure the future research budget