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The department's response to recommendations from UK National Screening Committee against a screening programme for prostate cancer.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
As a precaution airlines are asked to use insecticide on all flights returning to the UK from countries with confirmed transmission of Zika.
Harmful drinking, Zika virus and travel, new PHE and DH antibiotic resistance video, and changes to population screening programes highlighted.
PHE’s call for eligible people to get vaccine comes after figures show drop in coverage.
The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 receives Royal Assent
4 May 2016: Conference on accelerated development and access to innovative medicines for patients.
Public Health England will end rubella (German measles) susceptibility screening in pregnancy in England on 1 April 2016.
MHRA has launched a campaign highlighting the work of pharmaceutical assessors and the role they play in protecting public health.
MHRA investigators seize more than 28,000 unlicensed slimming pills in Manchester area.
Scientists at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) dispel some of the common myths about flu vaccines.
How Islington Council is meeting the diverse needs of harmful and dependent drinkers.
The first cancer patients have been recruited to the 100,000 Genomes Project, the DNA-sequencing project from Genomics England.
The agency will pilot holding board meetings in public in 2016.
2 March 2016: Joint MHRA and ABPI conference.
MHRA statement on Phase 1 clinical trial in France
The UK National Screening Committee has published 11 recommendations including improvements to existing screening programmes.
George Freeman, Minister for Life Sciences, reflects on the latest developments to treat blindness and working towards a paperless NHS.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal Open, presents some positive findings and also recognises opportunities for improvement.
Forecasts for ice and cold weather have prompted further warnings from the Met Office, and take care calls from Public Health England (PHE).
Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs writes to Karen Bradley MP about Estra-4,9-diene-3,17-dione, also known as Dienedione.
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