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Media Monitoring: 25th June – 1st July

People with advanced bowel cancer are less likely to have participated in cancer screenings A collaboration between a team at King’s College London led by Peter Sasieni and a QMUL-based group led by Stephen Duffy collected data from over 14,000 people with bowel cancer and over 29,000 people who did not have bowel cancer They estimated that the risk of…
Ben Kemp
July 1, 2022
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100,000 free copies of BS ISO 50005:2021 available in Net Zero push – download yours here!

100,000 copies of BS ISO 50005 are being sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as part of their commitment to support small and medium-sized organizations to manage their energy performance and help the UK to meet Net Zero. The standard provides organisations with a means to develop a practical, low-cost approach to energy management. Using…
Ben Kemp
July 1, 2022
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Medicinal Products Working Group, Technical Barriers to Trade Specialised Committee and the UK-EU TCA updates

Medicinal Products Working Group and Technical Barriers to Trade Specialised Committee update and call for any issues related to the UK-EU TCA: The Medicines and Devices (Goods) team remain ready to stand up the Medicinal Products Working Group (MPWG) and continue working to progress the forum. They have agreed a pragmatic compromise with the Commission that the Technical Barriers to…
Ben Kemp
July 1, 2022
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Media Monitoring – 18th – 25th June

Over £1 million awarded to Newcastle University to tackle antimicrobial resistance Over £1 million has been awarded to a Newcastle University researcher to study how bacteria change form to protect against antibiotics Dr Katarzyna Mickiewicz, from the Biosciences Institute, has received the funding from UKRI’s Impact Acceleration Account to study the importance of L-form switching in antibiotic evasion and recurrence…
Natalie Creaney
June 24, 2022
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Novel blood test developed to better diagnose bipolar disorder

Researchers in France have discovered a set of blood biomarkers specific to bipolar disorder which indicate the presence of the illness, thus allowing them to develop a world-first blood test to diagnose the condition. Diagnosing bipolar disorder has traditionally been difficult and complex, leading to an average seven year wait for diagnosis. The research team was made up of researchers…
Natalie Creaney
June 24, 2022
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HMRC urges businesses to switch to the new Customs Declaration Service for exchange of goods between GB and UK

HMRC has reached out to businesses this week alerting them of the need to utilise the new Customs Declaration Service in advance of 30 September 2022. The new streamlined customs IT platform must be used from this date onwards, and it will replace the previous Customs Handling Import and Export Freight (CHIEF), representing a significant upgrade by providing businesses with…
Natalie Creaney
June 24, 2022
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Media Monitoring: 11th June – 18th June

Elevated disease risk for the 1 in 500 men with extra sex chromosome Approximately one in 500 men may be carrying an extra X or Y chromosome – most of them without knowing – leading to an elevated risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis and thrombosis, Cambridge and Exeter University researchers say Researchers analysed genetic data collected…
Natalie Creaney
June 17, 2022
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Government rejects MPs’ warning on early cancer diagnosis

The Government have rebuked the Health and Social Care Committee’s warnings from their report into cancer services. The Committee’s report, which was published in April, claimed that progress on cancer targets would be negated if additional efforts were not made. They also stated their belief that the NHS would not currently meet the 75% early cancer diagnosis target by 2028.…
Natalie Creaney
June 17, 2022
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