News Pharmacy First prescribing expanded to ease GP pressure From the autumn, pharmacists in England will be able to prescribe a wider array of medicines under the Pharmacy First programme.
News Review advises against broad NHS prostate cancer screening The UK's National Screening Committee has concluded that the harms of widespread prostate cancer screening would outweigh its benefits.
News WHO names three 'priority' Ebola drugs for trials The WHO has named drugs from Regeneron, Mapp Bio, and Gilead that should be fast-tracked through trials to respond to the current Ebola outbreak.
News EpiWatch app detects major seizures with few false alarms An Apple Watch patient monitoring app can help people with epilepsy reduce the risk of sudden death, with high sensitivity and a low false alarm rate.
News Philanthropic drive puts $140m behind strep A vaccine A $140m fund launched by philanthropic group Coefficient Giving will try to find the first vaccine for Strep A, which kills 639,000 people a year.
News Europe is facing a surge in STIs, says ECDC Cases of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) – particularly gonorrhoea and syphilis – are at record levels across 29 European countries.
News ASCO26: Revolution's 'grand slam' data in pancreatic cancer Revolution Medicines' pan-RAS(on) inhibitor daraxonrasib has delivered an unprecedented result in pancreatic cancer.
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