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A PCR diagnostic developed by Roche for the Bundibugyo form of Ebola is being offered to health systems at the front lines of the current outbreak.

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AbbVie's Elahere has become the first new NHS therapy in more than 20 years for resistant ovarian cancer, providing an alternative to chemotherapy.

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An app used to support people living with advanced cancer has helped them maintain quality of life, and also kept them out of hospital.

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The NHS digital single patient record (SPR) could result in 20,000 fewer A&E visits in England per year and save £20m a year, says the UK government.

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From the autumn, pharmacists in England will be able to prescribe a wider array of medicines under the Pharmacy First programme.

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The UK's National Screening Committee has concluded that the harms of widespread prostate cancer screening would outweigh its benefits.