The treatment uses a targeted therapy that seeks out a specific protein found on the surface of cancer cells and delivers a cancer-killing medicine directly to them.
Women with type 1 diabetes who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy should be offered a pregnancy-specific 'artificial pancreas' device. That is the recommendation in draft guidance published today by NICE.
A consultation has begun on draft guidance recommending 4 specialist liver preservation machines for routine NHS use, which could help more of the 600 people in England waiting for a life-saving transplant.
The targeted treatment helps people live longer and can help prevent the disease from returning.
Debra Quantrill was out with her 2 young children when she had a life-changing heart attack. Now she’s using her experience to help others as a patient representative on one of our independent committees.
In Dudley, an asthma clinic is catching people before they reach crisis point, diagnosing faster and making sure patients have the right treatment from the start - referral times have fallen from over a year to under 6 weeks.
No two products are the same, so no two NICE Advice projects should be either. Andrew Walsh explains how NICE Advice adapts its services to fit your situation.
NICE has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to adapt the evidence standards framework for digital health technologies to support evidence-based decision making for digital care technologies used in adult social care.
