Life Sciences
Pharma, pharmaverse, and life-sciences work.
6 posts
A Guide to R Package Validation in Pharma: A Summary
A summary of R package validation in pharma, covering GxP compliance, reproducibility, traceability, and risk-based tools like {riskmetric}.
17 Nov 2024
Exploring the Top 5 pharmaverse Packages
A quick tour of five essential pharmaverse R packages, {rtables}, {admiral}, {teal}, {riskmetric}, and {tidyCDISC}, for clinical data analysis.
17 Nov 2024
AI's Role in Improving Femtech for African Women
Femtech refers to technology that supports women's health, livelihoods, and overall wellbeing. Africa is one place where it has been most impactful, opening up opportunities to women across the continent.
6 Dec 2022
Opening Africa's Medical Data Presents Both Pros and Cons
Open medical data hold both advantages and disadvantages, but they will encourage dialogue and partnerships. Africa's data are underrepresented, hard to access, or unavailable, and open access would mark a major step toward solving that.
30 Jun 2022
The Future of Precision Medicine in Africa, the World
What will the future of healthcare look like, and how can Africa overcome inequality and other obstacles to benefit from health data and technologies tailored to the unique genetics of its diverse population?
20 May 2022
AI Offers Therapy to Mental Healthcare Sufferers in Nigeria
Government inertia, negative stereotypes, and stigma still surround mental health in Nigeria. Here is how technology reinforces the illness, and how artificial intelligence could help treat it.
10 Mar 2022