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Improving newborn screening
Using patient data to better screen for, and look after, newborn babies with congenital hypothyroidism.
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
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Studying the health of a million women
Studying population health through patient data
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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Studying the health of doctors to prove the dangers of smoking
Collecting data from thousands of British doctors to examine the health effects of smoking
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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Using genetics for healthcare and research
The 100,000 Genomes Project links genetic with health data to investigate disease
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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How does lifestyle affect health?
Using patient data to understand the impact of diet on health
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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Planning services for people living with and beyond cancer
Using patient data to look at what happens to someone after receiving a cancer diagnosis
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
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Improving early cancer diagnosis for Black African women
Using patient data to identify variation in diagnosis of late stage breast cancer
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
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Understanding the impacts of genes, lifestyle and environment
UK Biobank stores health data on 500,000 volunteers to provide a resource for researchers
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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Comparing cancer survival rates worldwide
Using cancer registries to examine cancer survival variation between countries
- Understanding disease
- Planning
- Policy
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Identifying public health risks
Monitoring data to identify emerging risks, such as epidemics
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning