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The NHS has launched the world’s largest trial of a potentially gamechanging blood test that aims to detect more than 50 types of cancer before…
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The government’s Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation said this week that people aged 18 to 29 who are not at high risk of Covid…
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A new breast cancer treatment will cut the amount of time some patients have to spend in hospital from two and a half hours to…
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A wage-advance app owned by the collapsed-lender Greensill Capital and used by NHS nurses during the pandemic has gone into administration. The Covent Garden-based company,…
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In the summer of 1981, when he was 13, Grant crashed a trail motorbike into a wall at his parents’ house in Cambridgeshire. He’d been…
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People who recover from coronavirus have a similar level of protection against future infection as those who receive a Covid vaccine – at least for…
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