UK Government to tackle air pollution
Environment secretary Michael Gove has launched a new 'world leading plan' to tackle air pollution.
14th January 2019
Environment secretary Michael Gove has launched a new 'world leading plan' to tackle air pollution.
14th January 2019
A new report on current trends in Schizophrenia services in the UK launched by Janssen has found that mental health services are falling behind physical health services.
14th January 2019
Speed of recruitment and demand for a trial assessing the impact of HIV prevention therapy PrEP has significantly exceeded initial predictions, leading researchers to consider increasing the number of participants from 13,000 to up to 26,000.
14th January 2019
A new Pegasus study has found that Generation Z (aged 16-23) has an overwhelming concern that UK health services won’t meet their needs or expectations in the future.
14th January 2019
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved Flutiform pMDI for use in the treatment of children with asthma aged five years and over.
14th January 2019
Blue Water Vaccines has signed an option agreement with the UK’s University of Oxford to exclusively license the latter's novel and potentially revolutionary universal flu vaccine.
11th January 2019
The British Medical Association (BMA) has found that as many as 60% of consultants are thinking of leaving the NHS before their planned retirement age.
11th January 2019
The latest NHS monthly performance statistics have shown that pressure on the NHS is at ‘fever pitch’.
11th January 2019
Medical researchers in the UK and Japan are to join forces in the fight to advance research into treatments for some of the most debilitating degenerative diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.
11th January 2019
Two women in the UK have been infected with so-called super-gonorrhoea, amid an increase in antibiotic resistance.
11th January 2019
New data released by the Office for National Statistics has revealed that NHS productivity for the financial year ending 2017 grew by 3% in England, dramatically outstripping productivity growth in the rest of the economy.
11th January 2019
Statins could bring significant benefits to people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or non-affective psychoses, indicate new findings from UCL-led research.
10th January 2019
Sanofi’s Cablivi has been linked with a 74% reduction in aTTP-related death in a Phase III trial published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
10th January 2019
New research suggests that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tablets are associated with a higher risk of rare but serious blood clots.
10th January 2019
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has rejected NHS funding for Novartis’ Aimovig (erenumab) as preventative treatment for migraine in draft guidelines.
10th January 2019