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It’s essential to increase EU research and innovation funding

Research and innovation are pre-requisites of economic growth and job creation. That’s why, in addition to increasing the budget of the next Framework programme, structural funds should be earmarked for R&D and Innovation, says Maria Da Graça Carvalho, MEP

Smaller, faster trials can improve cancer treatments

The advent of personalised medicine means cancer survival over the long term could be improved by running smaller, faster trials with less stringent evidence criteria, the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Sweden heard this week