Media Monitoring: November 26th – December 2nd

More than 800 people living with HIV and Hepatitis not receiving treatment have been found by the NHS in just six months following the rollout of routine testing in A&E
In April 2022, the NHS made £20 million available over three years to implement routine HIV opt out testing within 33 hospital Emergency Departments, in areas with the highest rates of diagnosed HIV
Latest NHS data shows the programme is already having success, with 834 newly identified cases of people living with the HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C found between April and September following its launch

A lack of ethnic diversity in clinical trials is hampering efforts to understand the disease at a molecular level
A study has confirmed genomic differences in men of Chinese ethnicity suffering from prostate cancer, while men of African and Caribbean descent at the greatest risk of the disease
Trials are dominated by the US and European countries, therefore the aforementioned groups will suffer as they are not properly represented

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UK researchers have discovered he presence of T-cells expressing a molecule called cMet in the blood strongly indicates that a person has myocarditis
This could pave the way for a diagnostic test to be developed
The BHF researchers hope that a simple blood test can now be developed, banishing the need for an expensive and invasive biopsy

The UK government’s new procurement-and-beyond body housed in the DHSC says a medtech strategy could hit the presses before 2023

These contact lenses, worn for an hour before being removed and examined, can hopefully prevent deaths and save eyes
Developed by University of Sheffield researchers, the lenses would also ensure less reliance on antibiotics, further fighting against AMR
It is hoped they can particularly help in the developing world, where current methods are invasive and lengthy