The UK government has announced plans to create a real-time surveillance system to monitor the threat of future pandemics and prevent disease.
A partnership between the government, Genomics England, UK Biobank, NHS England, and Oxford Nanopore…
UK Biobank has “strongly” refuted claims that researchers from a ‘race science’ network accessed volunteers’ sensitive health information.
A report published in The Guardian on 17 October 2024 said that undercover footage, taken by anti-racism…
The electrocardiogram (ECG) can capture obesity-related cardiac changes. Artificial intelligence-enhanced ECG (AI-ECG) can identify subclinical disease. We trained an AI-ECG model to predict body mass index (BMI) from the ECG alone. Developed from 512,950…
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Increasing evidence suggests an association between exercise duration and Parkinson’s disease. However, no high-quality prospective evidence exists confirming whether differences exist between the two modes of exercise, weekend warrior and equal distribution of exercise…
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Accurate physical activity monitoring is essential to understand the impact of physical activity on one’s physical health and overall well-being. However, advances in human activity recognition algorithms have been constrained by the limited availability…
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Ten thousand participants of the Estonian Biobank are to have their entire genomes sequenced, using the latest and most advanced type of sequencing technology from PacBio.The next phase of the populational health research project…
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Kainos and Our Future Health have extended their strategic digital delivery partnership aimed at advancing the UK’s largest health research programme.Our Future Health’s goal is to sign up five million volunteers from diverse backgrounds…
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UK Biobank has today unveiled incredible new data from whole genome sequencing of its half a million participants, a step that is set to drive the discovery of new diagnostics, treatments and cures. The data, uniquely,…
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Evidence regarding the association between physical activity and Parkinson’s disease (PD) risk is generally limited due to the use of self-report questionnaires. We aimed to quantify the separate and combined effects of accelerometer-measured light…
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UK Biobank has denied sharing sensitive health data intended for medical research with insurance companies, in response to an investigation by The Observer, which was published in the paper on Sunday 12 November.UK Biobank…
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