NHS launches first-ever breast screening campaign to help detect thousands of cancers earlier
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Jo Harby, director of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: “Every day, more than 150 people are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. Thanks to the national breast screening programme, thousands of cancer cases are detected at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be successful. Improving access for people who want to attend screening is vital, and using digital tools, such as the NHS app, is one way to help with this.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remains one of psychiatry’s most disabling conditions, affecting about 1-2% of the population. People with OCD have an 82% increase in all cause mortality compared with unnafected matched people from the general population, with suicide being a major contributor.…
The French pharma company Servier said Friday that it would buy Day One Biopharmaceuticals, the maker of a drug for childhood brain tumors, in a deal worth roughly $2.5 billion.
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