Searching for gold There is a lot of digging going on at the
Karolinska
Campus at Solna outside Stockholm. Piles of sand and gravel surround large holes in the ground. It looks like a scene from the Klondike Gold Rush, with prospectors mining for riches. But the
real gold is being mined
within the walls of Karolinska University Hospital – in the doctors’ offices and examining rooms. And the riches they are harvesting in clinical research are
patient data.
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