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Advice to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on data release from clinical trials, published last week, should ultimately help to improve healthcare but reveals widely divided opinion on exactly how data sharing should happen.F1000 Blog.
Mr Iaconesi has been diagnosed with cancer. He set up a website where he shares his medical records. He is crowd-sourcing a cure.
“Grab the information about my disease if you want and give me a cure, create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game, or try to find a solution for my health problem,” he wrote.
BBC News.
Harlan Krumholz comments on GSKs decision to share data.
Forbes.
British drugs company releases findings of clinical trials and announces new effort to find tropical disease cures.
The Guardian.