NSHG-PM Takes Up Post–Schrems II Health Data Sharing
15 October 2020. A memo with the initial NSHG-PM draft suggestions was sent to the Data Protection Authorities of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden on 4 October 2020....
Icelandic Multi-Omics Study IDs Gene Variant That Increases Risk of Autoimmune Diseases
2 September 2020. Researchers in Iceland have discovered a variant in the FLT3 gene that increases the risk of autoimmune thyroid disease, as well as three other autoimmune diseases, and double the risk for a type of leukemia ...
News Brief: European Court Strikes Down EU-US Data Privacy Shield
European researchers may be affected by the recent decision impacting data transfers to US companies ...
Tracking Disease Risk From Genes Into Brain Cells
A Swedish-led international team innovates with big genetic and other data to finger new suspects in Parkinson's disease ...
Danish Health Data Show Physical Toll of Mental Disorders
In one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, an international team of researchers has strengthened the evidence that most mental disorders increase the risk of developing physical illnesses.