Researchers at the University of Cologne and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have developed the digital platform MEDA-PKD. Using the example of polycystic kidney disease, this initiative brings together previously unstructured medical data for the first time into a continuously expanding knowledge database that can be analysed almost in real time, offering potential for research, clinical trials and patient care / publication in npj Digital Medicine.

Circadian depression is linked to disruptions in the body’s internal 24-hour clock and is less responsive to treatment by traditional antidepressants.  

Experts hope discovery will lead to alternative and more targeted behavioural and medical treatments, notably in young people in the early stages of these disorders.