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European clinical trials and the GDPR
Privacy is paramount in the EU and the UK. And that means you as a trial sponsor must focus on safeguarding the personal data you collect on trial participants as well as vendors and even your own EU- and UK-based employees and on-site staff. Failure to do so...
How reducing workplace stress could help prevent heart attacks
When the leader of a major organisation suffers a heart attack, it tends to make the headlines. That was the case in 2017, when the American Heart Association’s volunteer president, cardiologist John Warner, M.D., went into cardiac arrest. That was the case...
The ticking time bomb: Ageing population
When Emma Morano died in Italy April 2017, she was the world’s oldest person. She was also the last link to the 19th century, having been born in November 1899. According to a BBC report, the 117-year-old woman’s life “not only spanned three centuries...
Aetna’s Rush to Brush program
In 2018, the global health care industry held 1,218 exabytes of data. That’s a staggering figure considering that a single exabyte could hold all the printed material in the Library of Congress 100,000 times over. Moreover, health care’s data storage...
Flu fighters: How flu vaccines and workplace hygiene can benefit you and your workers
Are you a comfort giver or a flu giver? That’s the question the UK’s South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust recently posed in a series of advertisements targeting its employees. In one advert, an elderly woman reaches out to a nurse, who...