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ESA gives the green light to build PLATO space telescope

Researchers tell MEPs that audit culture, reimbursement system, and evaluation criteria for eastern countries should be reformed

A comprehensive database of 900 European research infrastructures will allow scientists to access resources, services and facilities of which they may previously have been unaware

Small companies with limited resources have much to gain from open innovation. But, says Wim Vanhaverbeke, a lack of suitable tools leaves SMEs struggling to organise and manage collaborations. They need support from local networks

Higher health care expenditure was associated with lower amenable mortality (that is, rates of the deaths that are potentially preventable with available treatments) in seventeen European countries, according to a new study

A study by researchers at the universities of Plymouth and Exeter found that older people are not being referred for mental health support nearly as frequently as their younger counterparts, despite the fact that they achieve better outcomes when they are referred

A randomised clinical trial of 766 patients has shown that a simple intervention - a web-based tool that enables patients to report their symptoms in real time, triggering alerts to clinicians -can have major benefits, including longer survival

For people with headache, seeing the neurologist by video for treatment may be as effective as an in-person visit, according to a Norwegian study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology

The University of Tampere and Tampere University Heart Hospital are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to recognise serious difficult to predict complications as early as possible in the home care of patients following a heart attack

The need to adopt a more value-based approach to healthcare is pressing, but some question if it is right to map the patient-centric model proposed by Harvard economist Michael Porter onto Europe’s universal health systems

With the number of cancer cases on the rise, stretched healthcare systems have to support more and more patients with troublesome symptoms and the side effects of treatment. Finnish start-up Noona has developed a mobile app to support self-management

A study from Warwick University suggests peer-led self-management programmes have little impact on the quality of life or lung function of adolescents with asthma, but concludes more data is needed to provide evidence for this

American dominance in biomedical research is shrinking, as international collaboration becomes ever more prominent

SKA South Africa project director Rob Adam goes on European roadshow to maintain interest in telescope still some years from being completed

Researchers are split over whether to go after new EU research funds

The Helmut Horten Foundation has supported Zurich’s medical hub for many years. Now, a new donation to ETH will enable the strengthening of the Zurich-Ticino “health axis"

Combining the technical expertise of an engineer with the clinical expertise of a medical doctor can lead to the invention of the century