Diagnostics

Article produced in association with Jeen Health Britain has committed serious money and political will to genomics at birth and during pregnancy. The one window it keeps overlooking is the cheapest and most actionable of all - the months before conception. A screening timeline with a gap at the start The UK has rarely been [...]

Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic Karyotype testing has become a familiar part of fertility and pregnancy investigations. The test is older, and more specific in what it can answer, than many people realise. Karyotyping is one of the oldest genetic tests still in routine clinical use. The technology dates back to the [...]

NHS scanning trucks have detected more than 10,000 lung cancers in England, with more than three quarters caught at stages one or two, new research has revealed. People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stages are nearly 13 times more likely to survive for five years than those whose cancer is caught late. Local [...]

Predictive Health Intelligence today announced a promising new way to identify people with serious liver disease earlier, using existing NHS blood test data. The findings come from the LiveWell study, with results being presented at a major European liver congress this week. The study looked at a new approach called the Cumulative Liver Damage Index, [...]

The UK government has announced £237m for 36 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England. CDCs are local sites, often on high streets, in shopping centres or retail parks, where patients can get tests such as MRI and CT scans without going to hospital. The investment will pay for four new centres in Gorton [...]

Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic Within the first few days of life, every baby born in England is offered a blood spot test, commonly known as the heel prick test.   The NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme screens for nine rare but serious conditions and has been responsible for [...]

Article produced in association with Jeen Health and Spital Clinic Genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk in women has, for much of its clinical history, been available only through a referral pathway involving a GP, a clinical genetics team and a family history review meeting specific risk thresholds. The arrival of direct-access private testing has [...]

By Dr Karan Wadhwa, consultant urological surgeon at Phoenix Hospital Group and clinical director at CHAPS In the UK, around one in five men dies before the age of 65, many from conditions that are preventable or far more treatable when detected early. Prostate cancer is central to that challenge. It is the most common [...]

Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic First-trimester ultrasound is a routine part of antenatal care across the UK. For most expectant parents, the nuchal translucency scan offers the first detailed visual assessment of the pregnancy and returns a reassuring result. For a smaller subset, however, a measurement above the expected range introduces a [...]

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to test newborn babies for SMA, a rare genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness. The condition was recently highlighted by singer Jesy Nelson, formerly of Little Mix, whose twin baby daughters have been diagnosed with SMA. Babies can be identified as having SMA [...]