If proven to be accurate, the point-of-care test could provide the NHS with a highly scalable, low-cost diagnostic tool. It ...

Rapid test enters trial to diagnose winter respiratory infections: United Kingdom Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 18:00 Hrs [IST] An NIHR-supported trial is investigating whether a 6 ...

A new rapid test being trialled at University Hospital Southampton could diagnose flu, Covid-19, and RSV in under a minute.

The brain-swelling virus has the potential to trigger a pandemic.

NHS Lanarkshire is urging everyone who is eligible to go for their potentially life-saving smear test. Cervical Cancer Prevention Week begins on January 19, putting a spotlight on the importance of ...

In 2023-24 the NHS sent a kit to almost 7 million people ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to many changes. Among them is universal familiarity with a molecular diagnostic technique that was largely unknown outside clinical use. The polymerase chain reaction — or ...

In July, 2025, the UK Government published the long-awaited National Health Service (NHS) 10-year plan for England centred on three major shifts:1 from hospital to community; analogue to digital; and ...

Larissa Hope believes psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, helped her through a difficult mental health condition. Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress, she was cast in ...

Kent mums are backing Little Mix star Jesy Nelson’s calls to include a rare genetic illness in the NHS’s heel prick tests for newborns. The singer is campaigning for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) to ...