COVID-19 vaccines have prevented 7.2 million infections and 27,000 deaths

Latest modelling analysis from Public Health England (PHE) and the University of Cambridge’s MRC Biostatistics Unit suggests that the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme has...
Current international breast cancer surgery guidelines need urgent revision, according to a meta-analysis of 68 studies

Guidelines on breast cancer surgery need revision, find Manchester researchers

Current international breast cancer surgery guidelines need urgent revision, according to a meta-analysis of 68 studies comprising 112,140 patients by University of Manchester researchers. The...

‘Ending free Covid testing on April Fool’s Day is ironically appropriate,’ says expert

The leading Covid-19 testing expert, Dr Quinton Fivelman PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at London Medical Laboratory, is warning that the Government’s ‘Living with Covid’...

Women to be able to get contraceptive pill from local chemists from next month

Thousands of women across England will be able to get the contraceptive pill at their local pharmacy from next month, as part of a...

Pennine Acute Trust Hospitals are getting better say Care and Quality Inspectors

Pennine Acute Trust hospitals are now providing safer, more reliable higher standards of care than ever before as confirmed by the Care Quality Commission...

UK failed to react to the coronavirus threat fast enough & is now heading...

A leading pandemic expert Sir Jeremy Farrar has said that the UK failed to react quickly enough to the Coronavirus epidemic and could now be...

Roadmap to reopening dentists

Experts from across the UK - including The University of Manchester - have carried out a rapid review of evidence to help policy makers...

Blood cancer trial gives former nurse new hope

A former NHS nurse, who was diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago is now in complete remission, with no evidence of the disease, thanks...

Nantwich dad to share his cancer treatment experience for a high profile proton beam...

A father of two from Nantwich, who was treated with proton beam therapy at The Christie in Manchester as part of a clinical trial,...

Green light for new NHS testing centre to open in Oldham

A landmark NHS diagnostics centre can soon open in Oldham after two important milestones were approved by Oldham Council. The council is working in partnership...