Health officials have reversed a decision over whether a genetic test for breast cancer patients should be used by the NHS. The Oncotype DX test was provisionally rejected for use
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Health officials are set to give the green light to a new treatment for a condition which has not seen any advances in almost six decades. The National Institute for
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Sharon Jeffreys from the Mental Health Intensive Support Team, NHS Improvement discusses the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)’s learning disabilities guideline and how organisations can work to
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A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry
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A “life-changing” drug for breast cancer patients has been given the final go-ahead for routine NHS use in England. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) issued its
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Some breast cancer patients could be offered hormone therapy for a decade under new NHS guidelines. And all women who have a mastectomy due to breast cancer should be offered
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NICE says that online and mobile programme Deprexis could help adults with depression get faster access to care and it should be tested out in NHS services. Around 200 people
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Health officials have taken a “backwards step” in breast cancer care after recommending that a genetic test should no longer be used on the NHS, a charity has said. The
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Thousands of women with previously untreatable breast cancer have been given new hope after health officials approved two new “breakthrough” drugs for NHS use. In new draft guidance, the National
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Plans to cut back on IVF treatment in some areas of England have prompted a fertility specialist to warn of “deliberate inequality”. Posts on the website of leading patient charity
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