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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

EU leadership role an opportunity for Tallinn to boost its status as the bloc’s most technology-enabled member

With more responsibilities and less money, the EU sets out plans to overhaul spending and options for new taxes to raise more revenue

EU research chief Robert-Jan Smits talks about the priorities for 2018 – 2020, getting the European Innovation Council off the ground and the changes coming in Framework Programme 9

Comments by Jyrki Katainen at Science|Business conference highlight coming budget battle among researchers, farmers and other EU constituents