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The OECD has launched an online consultation to get views on how to improve access to innovative therapies, whilst ensuring national drugs budgets do go through the roof.

Helping people with asthma take control of their own illness reduces symptoms, improves quality of life, reduces use of emergency health services and even prevents deaths, according to a review of 270 studies carried out by researchers in the UK.

‘This is the moment that if I was an investor I would double my bet on Europe,’ says Moedas, on the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council

Denmark was a leader in using primary care data to drive improvements in outcomes. The decision to take down the national database following security concerns was a major step backwards. Access must be restored says OECD

Getting a better night’s sleep can lead to improved physical and mental wellbeing over time

The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board set up a value-based team to collect and analyse data on how its budget is spent. This is helping to get better value for money and improving outcomes for patients with Parkinson’s disease, cataracts and chronic lung disease

Whopping cuts unveiled in budget proposal undermine United States’ leadership in science and technology

New analysis suggests that greater investment in ‘market-creating’ companies – of the kind proposed by EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas – can deliver the productivity growth which is eluding Europe

They invested £487B in the UK in 2015. Now US multinationals are prepared to relocate operations and staff to stay within the single market. The message to the UK government is clear: a hard Brexit will jeopardise investment

Hour-for-hour, they are paid 4 – 5 time less than counterparts in western Europe. But scientists in Slovenia are determined to make up for a lack of government funding and the structural disadvantages facing the country’s research and innovation system