Patients completed a questionnaire assessing outcome parameters including disability progression and work capability, to assess the effectiveness of Novartis’ fingolimod (Gilenya) in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
A study was performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC) in Edinburgh to assess patient satisfaction rates and understand how to improve outcomes.
The study carried out by researchers at Aberdeen University, provides a guide to how to improve the existing PROMs feedback methods in cancer pain management.
A new study has shown that using nursing assistants instead of professional nurses not only decreases patient satisfaction but also increases the risk of dying in hospital.
Joint European Commission and OECD study of 36 countries finds big disparities in outcomes and says governments should spend more on public health and prevention to cut premature deaths
Joint European Commission and OECD study of 36 countries finds big disparities in outcomes and says governments should spend more on public health and prevention to cut premature deaths
With growth forecasts sharply down from before the referendum, the pledge to balance the budget by 2020 is abandoned. New borrowing will allow for a Keynesian-style splurge on infrastructure and R&D
A new super-resolution imaging technique allows researchers to track how surface changes in proteins are related to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Horizon 2020-funded researchers in poorer countries of the EU are paid less than if they worked on projects funded by their national governments. Two Romanian MEPs have written to Jean-Claude Juncker to complain about this discrimination
The EU Commission has proposed a European Open Science Cloud. Science|Business, following its September 20 members’ conference on the topic, offers this primer
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