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Clinical trials are fundamental to the development of new treatments for cancer, but annual accrual to studies worldwide is low, at an estimated at three to five percent.

Paying hospitals for activity provides no incentive to improve. Using historical data, patients awaiting cardiac surgery can be profiled, with hospitals paid extra to bear the risk of complications, but receiving no further payment if a second operation is required

Three researchers are to receive ERC Starting Grants from the European Re-search Council (ERC) for their projects at ETH Zurich. These prestigious grants are awarded to talented individuals from around Europe at the start of their ca-reers. The projects are conducted in a variety of research fields.

The UK wants a close relationship with EU science after Brexit. But there is much work to do if the UK government is to succeed in forging a closer partnership with the EU than exists with any other non-EU member

Scientists need to call their governments and complain, Carlos Moedas said as he vowed to make his case to ministers of science and finance

A government position paper avoids mention of money and the hard line stance on immigration is unchanged, but the UK aims to stay part of EU R&D - in a closer partnership than any of the 16 associated countries

The largest and most powerful X-ray laser in world has opened in Hamburg. The machine can generate ultrashort X-ray flashes 27,000 times per second, with a brilliance that is a billion times higher than the best conventional X-ray radiation sources.

With ELIXIR, the European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information, fifteen European countries have established a secure hub-and-node infrastructure in which biological data will be permanently accessible for research.

The Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, was joined by Greg Clark MP and Professor Sir John Bell today (August 30th) at the Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM) - co-located on the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birminghamcampus - to make two major national life sciences investment announcements as part of the launch of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy.

German researchers are in the process of establishing the Industrial Data Space, a virtual construct for secure data sharing based on standardized communication interfaces

The German government has pledged €51.35 million as part of a €56.5 million funding. Other countries and foundations are donating the balance, to advance the work of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership

Quality of life measures used to assess the value of medical treatments fail to capture what matters to patients and carers. A UK project to develop new metrics could lead to an overhaul of how cost-effectiveness is judged