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 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 ...

A ‘fit and healthy’ father says taking a bowel cancer screening test that dropped on his doorstep was like a “winning lottery ticket” after it saved his life. Steve Hollington, 58, was diagnosed with ...

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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 ...

Superdrug has become the first high-street retailer in the UK to offer HIV self-tests, meaning you can test yourself for HIV at home by swabbing your gums and get results back in just 20 minutes.