By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A new genetic test may help determine which people with breast cancer can safely skip radiation after breast-conserving…
What is gestational diabetes? Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition that happens when a pregnant woman – not formerly diagnosed with diabetes – develops high blood sugar levels during…
Councils have a near 100 per cent record at contact tracing, officials have revealed, amid calls for them to be handed responsibility for test and trace. While the national call…
“People don’t answer their phones, people don’t want to get a contact from an unknown number.” Local contact tracing efforts have been stepped up, in part due to the public’s…
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in health protection at the University of East Anglia who has previously advised the World Health Organisation, said the app could be an effective tool…
There is a spaghetti of command and control at the top, which is incapable of coherent analysis, assessment, planning and delivery. The directorates suffer a high level of churn. Data…
The figures showed a drop to 59.6 per cent, from 63 per cent in the previous week, in the proportion of close contacts of people testing positive who were reached…
The radiologists were stumped. They had been staring at a mammogram for several minutes, and couldn’t work out what was wrong. They sent the scan on to an arbitrator radiologist…
Data suggests people are reluctant to pass on the details of possible contacts outside their own household, Prof Fraser said, adding: “About two thirds of the contacts are reported in…
The boss of the outsourcer at the centre of a row over the NHS’s Covid test and trace scheme has launched a scathing attack on a senior Labour MP over…
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