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 UK National Health Service (NHS) England has rolled out a new liquid biopsy test intended to fast-track lung cancer patients to receive targeted therapy. Liquid biopsy testing works by detecting ...

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 ...

A new NHS test is set to curb transfusion side-effects for thousands with inherited blood disorders, NHS England announced. A new genetic blood-matching test for thousands living with sickle-cell ...

The government is launching the second wave of its NHS Test Beds Programme, with seven projects across the country sharing more than £7m in funding to trial technology in clinical settings. The money ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by PA Video/PA Images via Getty Images) Personal identifiable information collected ...

The UK Health Security Agency has issued a reminder to people urging them to check their HIV status through free tests and treatment on the NHS. HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, attacks a ...

A patient says he has "lost total faith" in the NHS after taking prescribed medication he did not need for a year – and still does not know what is wrong with him. Brett Durant, 50, from King's Lynn, ...

An IT contractor working for a branch of the NHS in Croydon accidentally sent a test email to hundreds of thousands of staff across the entire National Health Service, causing the internal NHSmail ...