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Professor Sir Rory Collins, principal investigator and chief executive at UK Biobank
23 April 2026

Health data from UK Biobank listed for sale on Chinese website

De-identified UK Biobank medical data of 500,000 participants was breached and listed for sale on a Chinese website.
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Professor Sir Rory Collins, principal investigator and chief executive at UK Biobank
17 March 2026

De-identified UK Biobank health data accidentally published online

UK Biobank has confirmed that volunteers' de-identified health data has sometimes been unintentionally published online by researchers.
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Professor Sir Rory Collins, principal investigator and chief executive at UK Biobank
17 February 2026

UK Biobank to get access to GP patient data for research

The government will grant approval for UK Biobank researchers to access coded GP patient data for research purposes.
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4 August 2025

UK Biobank data and AI help predict early onset of diseases

A study has developed an AI method to predict the early onset of 38 age-related diseases through analysis of UK
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A patient lies on a table being prepared for an MRI scan
25 July 2025

UK Biobank confirms 100,000 MRI scan milestone reached

UK Biobank has announced that more than 100,000 participants have undergone whole-body MRI scans as part of a large imaging
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6 February 2025

Atrial fibrillation study highlights the role of GP data in research

A study led by Oxford Population Health identified 28% more cases of atrial fibrillation in primary care data than secondary
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6 November 2024

UK government to create surveillance system for future pandemics

The UK government has announced plans to create a real-time surveillance system to monitor the threat of future pandemics and
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18 October 2024

UK Biobank refutes claim that ‘race science’ group accessed data

UK Biobank "strongly" refutes claims that researchers from a ‘race science’ network obtained volunteers' sensitive health information.
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1 October 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Today's Coffee Time Briefing covers AstraZeneca's new AI tool and figures on the impact of the cost of living crisis
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3 April 2024

Estonian Biobank selects PacBio for whole genome sequencing

PacBio's Revio HiFi sequencing system is to be used to sequence the entire genomes of 10,000 participants of the Estonian
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