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Horizon 2020’s system of rigid calls and heavy auditing discourages high-risk, high-impact projects, says Ángeles Rodriguez-Peña, as she bows out as head of COST

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

Patients who receive the standard surgical treatment for melanoma that has spread to one or more key lymph nodes do not live longer, according to a major new study

Low-income Hispanics with Type II diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in their blood sugar levels equivalent to those resulting from some glucose-lowering medications, researchers at the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute reported

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

Greater certainty about what types of digital health technology will be regulated by FDA will foster innovation and help the agency to devote more resources to higher risk priorities, says Scott Gottlieb

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

Despite Brussels’ new emphasis on smart specialisation, there is an ongoing difficulty in capturing the value of EU cohesion policy

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

The Prima initiative will tackle two of the root causes of migration - water and food scarcity around the Mediterranean basin

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"