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NHS Wales partners with Illumina on genomics drive

Wales has extended a scheme to harness the power of genomics to improve cancer care and prevention via an alliance with gene-sequencing giant Illumina.

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King's Speech sets out Labour govt's health priorities

The hot list of policies for the new Labour government in the UK, laid out in the King's Speech today, focused mainly on economic growth but included several announcements related to health

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CDC recommends first post-exposure antibiotic for STIs

Faced with a dramatic rise in sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhoea in the US, the US government has, for the first time, backed the use of an

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FDA clears Roche self-collection system for HPV screening

The US FDA has approved a human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling solution developed by Roche that allows patients to collect a sample themselves in a healthcare setting.

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Semaglutide heart benefits may go beyond weight loss

New data suggests that the benefits of Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 agonist semaglutide in preventing cardiovascular diseases may not simply be a result of weight loss.

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