Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others.

A biotech pioneer introduces innovative diagnostic kits designed to slash costs, speed up results, and support timely ...

A major change to the bowel cancer screening test is helping to prevent bowel cancer cases in the Black Country with early results showing an increase in people taking up the checks.

The adjustment is projected to identify an additional 600 bowel cancer cases early each year, marking an 11 per cent increase ...

The new rules come into force in England next month ...

The NHS emphasised: "Ivan shares how the simple test saved his life." In the interview, Ivan recounted receiving his kit on ...

Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have said.

NHS England is set to significantly enhance its bowel cancer screening programme, aiming to detect thousands more cases at an ...

By reducing the level at which traces of blood in a FIT test trigger further investigation – from 120 micrograms of blood per gram of poo down to 80 – the NHS will offer 35% more screening ...

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has been piloting a more sensitive approach to bowel cancer screening, known as FIT@80, which launched in April 2024. Since its introduction, there has been a 35 per ...

Experts say more cancers will be detected at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be successful ...

In 2023-24 the NHS sent a kit to almost 7 million people ...