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Photo: Getty Images By Contributor 3rd June 2021 The task of improving screening programmes will fall to many different organisations writes Professor Niall O’Higgins That early detection and treatment of serious disease should reduce premature death and morbidity is a simple idea. To translate this notion to a public health benefit by screening is far more difficult. The balance between effective treatment for those with previously undetected disease, and the avoidance of harm to thos...

Capability to make changes themselves. its going to be the case for the next several decades that the pace of technological change will exceed our policy-making response. so it is incumbent on organizations to have code of conduct or ethics that would allow them to think about how their platforms might be misused. i dont think any of these platforms intended that they be made available for misuse, and yet, they clearly were. so my hope is yes, we want regulatory action and i think there will be ...