The Science|Business interview: Top EU health official outlines a push for better performance, crisis management – linked to Juncker economic agenda

A new online platform ShareIn is connecting biotech companies with investors. This is forcing traditional funders to up their game and cut back on layers of intermediary costs for start-ups, says Jude Cook, co-founder of ShareIn

Digital technologies can help older adults maintain independence and assist with their care. But resistance to change and a shortage of objective data to help communicate its value, is making it hard to commercialise products and build markets, says Martijn Vastenburg

Smartphones can help you understand and look after your health says Bruce Hellman, chief executive of health app start-up uMotif

The European Medicines Agency should play a greater role in monitoring shortfalls, a new study suggests

A new EU data protection law risks killing some types of medical research, researchers at the Karolinska Institutet say. Their prescription: A law that regulates Big Data, but allows for research

Drive-AB has €9.4M to develop new business models to promote industry investment in antibiotics and prevent their inappropriate use

InSphero’s breakthrough in generating 3D cell models of human organs at scale for use in toxicity screens attracted potential customers to invest in proving the technology. Now all the top ten pharma companies are users

Biologic drugs deliver health and wealth. But it is a long, fraught path from lab to bedside. Science|Business brought together research, business and policymakers to draft a risk-reduction plan for the new Parliament and Commission

MEPs, consumer and patient groups claim victory in broad lobbying effort