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Cervical cancer: Women to be offered home smear tests

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Simple blood test can detect five cancers four years early

PanSeer, a non-invasive technique that costs less than £80 a patient, is more than 90 percent accurate and could lead to screening for tumours of the lung, bowel, gullet, liver and stomach. These cancers claim around 69,300 lives each year in the UK. Professor Kun Zhang, from the University of California, San Diego, said: “The […]

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How eye test saved young mum’s life after dizzy spells

Amber Toon, 25, who was 20 weeks pregnant at the time, visited an optician after suffering dizzy spells. Instead of spending Christmas with her family, she ended up in hospital and needed an operation. Amber said: “One minute the optician was looking into the back of my eye, the next I was told to get […]

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Booster jab plea as mumps cases rise

The data shows there were 795 cases of the highly contagious viral disease recorded in the first quarter of this year – extrapolated for the whole of 2019 it would equate to 3,180. This is almost five times more than the 145 recorded in the first quarter of 2016 – or 580 for the year. […]