Cancer treatments and a new eczema drug are among the latest medicines approved for NHS use in Scotland. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) announced today that it has approved five out of six ...

The core principle of the NHS is, access to “free at the point of use healthcare”. Still, there is a growing divide across the UK regarding the types of innovative medicines that patients have access ...

A drug that has been approved for use by the NHS in England has been rejected in Scotland Breast cancer patients are being “denied the hope of more precious time” after a drug already approved for use ...

Patients who live further away from cancer centers are likely to receive different care and experience worse outcomes than those who live closer according to new research on patients in the north-east ...

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Healthcare providers in Scotland can now prescribe pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck Sharp & Dohme UK) in combination with chemoradiotherapy for patients with certain advanced cervical cancers. The ...

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