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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Technology
Miriam Stoppard

Treatment hope as study shows how different illnesses are linked

We have a problem. More and more people are living with several medical conditions, sometimes many.

But medical education and training, delivery, guidelines and even research, focus on one disease at a time. There’s a mismatch between what ­patients experience and what doctors are trained to do.

Researchers at University College London (UCL) are approaching this dilemma by identifying patterns of common diseases occurring together in the same people, using data from four million English patients.

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