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a spreadsheet with a memory, tracking every soul with a disease so science can catch up.
means an organized database collecting standardized information on everyone with a specific condition, treatment, or exposure, tracked over time.
from grew out of 19th-century cancer and tuberculosis surveillance efforts, when doctors realized single case reports were useless without a bigger pattern to compare against.
rare disease poweroften the only real-world evidence for tiny patient populations
not a trialobserves real care, no assigned treatments or placebos
regulatory cloutfda now accepts registry data to support drug approvals
longevitysome registries run for decades, outliving their founders