More than 150,000 people have had their personal information handled by England’s Test and Trace scheme since it was hurriedly launched on May 28 – 36 days ago. However, the government has failed to ...

The cost-effectiveness of a controversial test promoted as a multicancer early detection (MCED) tool from a single blood sample has been scrutinised in an investigation by the BMJ. The investigation ...

Announced during the coronavirus daily briefing on May 27, the NHS Test & Trace service is now up and running in England. "This new system will help us keep this virus under control while carefully ...

In early July, as the rest of England eased out of its first lockdown, Leicester was just getting started. Cases were rising rapidly and the city found itself put under a new lockdown from which it is ...

A "revolutionary" cancer blood test is set to transform the NHS, marking a global first that promises to fast-track personalised treatment for thousands. The innovative "liquid biopsy" test hunts for ...

If you search social media for “NHS Test and Trace” you’ll find not the latest figures on infections in the UK, nor Boris Johnson’s plan for dealing with them, but post after post of people imploring ...

The test can also pinpoint which organ or tissue in the body has cancer - helping give patients the right scans A “HOLY grail” blood test can pick up cancer cases with 84 per cent accuracy – even ...

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