HPV self-test kits are to be given to more than 31,000 women in England to encourage them to get tested for HPV from the comfort of their own homes. The trial, run by NHS England, will see swab tests ...

Home health tests bought by people seeking answers about their conditions could give inaccurate and misleading results and require much greater regulation to ensure they are safe, reliable, and ...

The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer to use it and return it. Every month, half a million free Faecal Immunichemical Test kits (FIT) ...

The NHS will be providing hundreds of thousands more people with home-testing kits that could help detect signs of bowel cancer. The annoucement comes as the health service plans to expand its ...

The NHS has urged people to carry out an important cancer test, saying “don’t put it off”. This simple screening can detect ...

The BMJ reviewed research on health test kits sold in UK supermarkets and uncovered some deeply concerning gaps. Unlike routine diagnostic tests and assays used in clinical practice and prescribed ...

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