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 ...

The NHS is aiming to test up to 100,000 newborn infants in a study to understand whether improvements can be made in diagnosing and treating genetic conditions. Newborn blood spot screening, often ...

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 ...

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 ...

NHS Test and Trace had a significant impact on driving down levels of COVID-19 transmission between June 2020 to April 2021, new modeling published today shows. From June 2020 to April 2021, testing, ...

Hundreds of potential kidney donors of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage in the UK can now get a simple blood test to help reduce the risk of kidney failure. The test is part of national ...

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 ...

Some Facebook users have been falsely claiming that outsourcer Serco has developed the NHS Test and Trace app. The posts can be seen here (here and here) . One post reads: “It is NOT NHS track and ...

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 ...

Former British MP Emma Dent Coad was not very happy to hear from the NHS Wales Test and Trace service today. Not because the SMS text message she received told her that she had tested positive for the ...