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COVID infections in UK fall to lowest level since October 2021 The ONS stated that fewer than a million people had the virus in the last week of August, approximately one in 70 The represents a massive fall from mid-July, when one in 15 people had COVID This comes at a time when the booster jab rollout has begun –…

Breakthrough as genetic sequencing predicts severity of COVID variants Drexel University researchers have pioneered a new computer model which can aid health services in identifying new strains of the disease with the help of machine learning The new model analyses the genetic sequencing from the virus’s spike protein The machine learning algorithm can then compare this with patient data –…

Novel blood test measures pulmonary arterial hypertension severity The test developed by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers, measures DNA fragments released by damaged cells Patients with the disease usually present with high levels of fragments in their blood, with higher levels correlating with disease severity Knowing the fragment levels in patients’ blood allows doctors to tackle the disease faster…

Novel womb cancer test less invasive and cuts diagnosis time Research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology discovered that low-cost PCR tests which use samples from the cervix or vagina could successfully detect womb cancer Current testing for womb cancer is invasive or painful – such as a transvaginal ultrasound or a biopsy Early results showed effectiveness across all…