GP Receptionists Help Safeguard Patients in Repeat Prescribing
Receptionists and administrative staff in UK general practices make important 'hidden' contributions to repeat prescribing, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal.
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From Patient Data to Personalised Healthcare in Alzheimer's Disease
Dementia has been recently identified as a health priority both in Europe and in the USA. Efficient solutions for early diagnosis and treatments are highly needed. The PredictAD project has developed several approaches for making the diagnosis more efficient and objective.
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Smartphones Can Revolutionize Research in Cognitive Science
Smartphones may be the new hot tool in cognitive psychology research, according to a paper in the online journal PLoS ONE. Cognitive psychology, which explores how people perceive, think, remember, and more, often relies on testing volunteers that come to a research facility to participate in behavioral experiments.
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Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
The proposed Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, which will be introduced post-2013, will build upon the successes of the current Framework Programme for Research (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
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€7 Billion Boost for Research and Innovation will Create Jobs and Growth
Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn announced nearly €7 billion to kick-start innovation through research. The European Commission's biggest ever such funding package, under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), is expected to create around 174 000 jobs in the short-term and nearly 450 000 jobs and nearly €80 billion in GDP growth over 15 years(1).
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Addressing the Challenges of an Ageing Population
The European Commission calls on EU Member States to develop and pursue a common vision on how to coordinate research at EU level in the field of ageing. This was the message of a Recommendation just adopted by the Commission entitled "More years, better lives - the potential and challenges of demographic change".
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The VPHI Institute is Fully Operational
The Virtual Physiological Human Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research, in short VPH Institute, was recently established as an international non-profit organisation incorporated in Belgium and it is now ready to operate and to start the membership campaign.
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