Dr. Bertalan Meskó works at Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest (Hungary) and is also known as “The Medical Futurist”. He specialises in analysing the impact of technologies on global medicine and healthcare.     As AI becomes increasingly integrated into healthcare systems, concerns about data privacy,...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) already has and will continue to have significant impacts on many areas, including health and public health. This transformative technology can perform a multitude of tasks in healthcare, from answering patient questions to assisting with surgeries and developing new pharmaceutical...

Dr. Wannes Van Hoof PhD works at the Cancer Centre of the Belgian Institute of Public Health Sciensano. There, he leads a team working on patient/citizen engagement and the ethical aspects of the secondary use of health data, innovative cancer therapies and the implementation of genomic technologies...

The European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) took an early interest in a technology that is increasingly shaping our world: Artificial Intelligence.   Its experts, scientists and MEPs recognised the potential of AI for sectors like education, medicine and computing,...

The future of Horizon Europe for research and innovation, generative AI in research, AI as the new goldmine for Europe: check out the ESMH selection of 22 science and tech news items published recently on the web.

AI-powered misinformation, extreme weather events and phone addiction: check out the ESMH selection of 20 science and tech news published last weeks on the web.

This is what Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier said talking about academic freedom at the prestigious Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, in a conversation with seven journalists from four continents.   The French scientist, together with Jennifer Doudna rewarded in 2020 for the development...

Interview with Prof. Guilherme Wood on neurorights     Today we stand on the threshold of a new revolution: neurotechnology – devices and procedures that seek to access, assess, emulate and act on neural systems – is booming. Driven by new developments in artificial intelligence, they can be used for...