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UK Early Disease Detection Project To Use AI And Health Data

 
• By Ian Schofield

A new UK initiative plans to collect data from healthy volunteers to create a biobank that could be of use in developing new diagnostic methods to detect disease at an earlier stage.

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A new UK initiative is looking at ways of detecting disease earlier

A new program is being launched in the UK that will use health data and artificial intelligence to develop new tools for diagnosing conditions such as cancer, dementia and heart disease at an earlier stage, allowing people to take preventive action or be treated more effectively, possibly before symptoms appear.

The project, called Accelerating Detection of Disease, will benefit from investment by the government and life science companies looking to...

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