Manchester Study-During summer, hazardous mould species more abundant in rooms with windows
Levels of a fungus hazardous to patients with respiratory disease are more abundant in rooms with outside facing windows during the summer months, University...
COVID isolation period to be cut from seven to five days in England
The amount of time that people will have to isolate if they have tested positive for Covid is to be cut from seven to...
Johnson set to lift remaining COVID restrictions
Boris Johnson is set to make an announcement on the end of coronavirus restrictions in England today with his “Living with COVID” plan....
Exercise shown to release protein reducing bowel cancer risk
Experts have identified for the first time exactly how exercise can lower your risk of getting bowel cancer and slow the growth of tumours.
Scientists...
Local mental health services boosted with new psychology trainee roles
Mental health services in Greater Manchester will receive a boost following the creation of a new psychology trainee role.
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, which...
Thousands of patients to benefit as NHS marks 100th fast-tracked cancer drug
Thousands of people a year with advanced breast cancer will benefit from a life-extending drug that has been fast-tracked onto the frontline of NHS...
The Christie is the first UK hospital to become a European Prostate Cancer Centre...
The Christie has been named as one of the inaugural European Prostate Cancer Centres of Excellence. The specialist cancer centre in Manchester is the...
NHS “dental deserts” persist in rural and deprived communities
New analysis by the Local Government Association reveals a growing number of “dental deserts” across the country with more deprived or rural local authority...
Two women with lung cancer who have never smoked speak out to help others
When Sally Hayton, from Bury, was told she had lung cancer at age 49, at first, she thought it couldn’t be true. After all,...
mRNA cancer vaccines trial to launch in UK
Trials into vaccines for cancer and wider diseases will accelerate after the government reached a historic agreement with a leading biopharmaceutical firm to bring...