Clinical Effectiveness Unit News Today

After the death of a woman from Rigevidon, and serious health complications for others, theres been calls to stop the pill being offered on the NHS.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will co-lead a new national centre of excellence with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS England) to strengthen NHS cancer services by looking at treatments and patient outcomes right across England and Wales. The National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre will deliver five new national cancer audits in breast cancer (primary and metastatic), ovarian, pancreatic, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and kidney cancer.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will co-lead a new national center of excellence with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS England) to strengthen NHS cancer services by looking at treatments and patient outcomes right across England and Wales.

There’s no evidence that taking the combined contraceptive pill affects the risk of blood clots after the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, a leading sexual health body has said. The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health has recommended that people taking the combined pill continue to do so after receiving both the first and second dose of the vaccine. The guidance was issued after concerns over links between contraception, blood clots, and Covid-19 vaccines. The pill does inc...

The young women choosing to go without contraception It has long been accepted that contraceptive methods currently available to women are far from ideal – but for some, they’re so unpleasant they’d rather avoid them altogether. By Darcy Jimenez Jessica Lockett | Getty Images Kate* had been with her boyfriend for two years when she became pregnant. The couple hadn’t been using birth control - but not because they were hoping for a baby. At 23, Kate didn’t want to conceive at ...