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CDCs helping speed up diagnosis of illnesses like cancer and heart disease, says Victoria Atkins

More than 6 million tests, scans and health checks carried out at local diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England since were first introduced in July...

Scotland approves six new medicines including Tafamidis for treatment of rare heart condition

Pfizer data suggested that their drug would lead to improvements in 'mortality and fewer hospitalisations' for patients with this terrible condition  The Scottish Medicines Consortium...

‘Wegovy could be key to curing heart failure’

Novo Nordisk said its hugely popular drug Wegovy was shown to substantially ease heart failure in obese people, as the Danish drugmaker seeks to...

One in five people with risk of heart disease do not know how to check pulse, study says

One in five people in the UK having a personal or familial risk of heart disease do not know how to check their pulse,...