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Walmart retreats from healthcare, closing clinics across US

For the last few years, Walmart has been promising to disrupt the US healthcare sector with a national network of clinics providing low-cost care and telehealth services.

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Spotlight on kidney disease: Driving change for patients

Katherine Forbes, director of innovation and enterprise at Kidney Research UK, discusses the unique, evolving role of medical research charities in facilitating collaborative partnerships a

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Ubie AI aims to improve diagnosis of rare disease Cushing’s

People with the rare disease Cushing’s syndrome can sometimes take years to get a diagnosis, but a new project hopes to shorten that timeline with the help of artificial i

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UK survey finds deep ethnic divisions in cancer diagnosis

A UK report has found that people from minority ethnic backgrounds face an average delay of a year between first noticing symptoms and gaining a diagnosis, which is more t

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Sarah was born with ADA-SCID but was fortunate to access gene therapy via a clinical trial

NHS trust bids to take license for abandoned gene therapy

An NHS trust has taken the pioneering step of applying to hold the marketing authorisation for a gene therapy for a rare disease that was abandoned by a biotech developer

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Dissatisfaction with NHS ‘at record high’

More than half (52%) of people who participated in a major survey of the GB public were dissatisfied with the NHS, as staff shortages, strikes, and record waiting lists ta