Dr Muin J. Khoury, Emory University School of Public Health and University of Washington School of Public Health, on the evolution and contributions of genomics to medicine and public health. Dr. Muin ...

June 2022, House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Department of Health and Social Care – 10-Year Cancer Plan April 2022, Department of Health and Social Care Consultation response: ...

It was this theme, the importance of equity in digital health, that I spoke about at the Cambridge Wearable Innovation Forum ...

The UK is a recognised powerhouse for genomic science and medicine. Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project is the largest sequencing project of its kind in the world and, building on these ...

A recent consultation by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) indicates a welcome new direction for public and patient involvement (PPI). The MHRA proposed new five-year ...

Effective data sharing underpins much of health care, and new ways of integrating and mining data support existing practice and inform novel approaches. The regulatory framework that governs the ...

On Friday the High Court ruled on the case of ABC v St George’s NHS Trust (and other NHS defendants). This is a significant decision with implications for a wide range of healthcare professionals ...

These plans have been a long time in the making. The intention to produce a strategy ‘to ensure the UK is able to offer a predictive, preventative and personalised health and care service for people ...

The Wellcome Trust recently announced that they are funding a research programme to investigate synthetic human genomes, and Laura Blackburn, PHG Foundation’s Head of Science, had the opportunity to ...

The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 aimed to make England the world leader in dementia care, support, research and awareness by 2020. While substantial progress has been made on many of ...

The European Health Data Space Regulation has arrived but will its mandatory sharing requirement be its tour de force or Achilles’ heel? The Regulation amounts to an ambitious and laudable step ...

The UK government has launched a new alliance to sequence the genomes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic. Backed by a £20 million investment, the COVID-19 Genomics ...