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Environmental impacts with manufacturing Personalised Medicine

Environmental impacts with manufacturing Personalised Medicine

Personalised medicines aim to move therapies from medicines designed for use by all people, to medicines targeted to specific sub-populations based on their particular genomic characteristics, and ultimately to approaches whereby therapeutic interventions are tailored to the specific characteristics of one individual. This move has implications for medicines manufacturing processes, and these implications need to be considered in terms of their environmental costs. This is especially because manufacturing of personalised medicines will most likely occur in addition to traditional manufacturing rather than instead of it. We wrote a report and made a range of recommendations about how the adverse environmental costs of manufacturing personalised medicines should be considered. This is a summary of the findings.

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Using hospital data to improve healthcare

Using hospital data to improve healthcare

Every time a person visits an NHS hospital, data are collected from them in order to inform their clinical care. Analysing these data from lots of people together could give new insights about diseases and treatments. This could feed back into the NHS to improve clinical care for people in the future, but often it doesn’t happen partly because ‘NHS care’ and ‘research’ are seen as different things that need to be managed separately. This video looks at the benefits and challenges of using routinely collected health data to improve clinical care, and asks how can we develop responsible and trustworthy systems to achieve this.

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Polygenic Risk Scores

Polygenic Risk Scores

Our genes provide valuable insight into our family history, our ancestry, and our health. As we learn more about our DNA, we identify new opportunities for healthcare. One such opportunity comes from using polygenic risk scores. In this video, you will learn what a polygenic risk score is, see how they can be used in healthcare, and find out how you can participate in research studies that use them.

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