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The latest news and comment on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice)

July 2024

  • Person struggling to get to sleep

    Insomnia? There’s a Nice-backed app for that

    Letter: Evidence-based digital therapeutics are now available that treat insomnia and other mental health conditions safely, writes Dr Ian Wood
  • Boxes of Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy in London

    Weight-loss jab gets green light to be used to prevent heart attacks in UK

    Wegovy wins approvals from MHRA as drug to help reduce risk of heart problems in people who are overweight
  • Female Doctor Treating Patient

    Why testosterone is so important for women during menopause

    Letter: Kate Muir takes issue with an article about the use of testosterone by women

June 2024

  • The cancer medicine Enhertu

    Blame big pharma, not the NHS, for drug prices

  • A box of Mounjaro, a tirzepatide injection drug

    Mounjaro is second obesity drug to be approved for use in England

May 2024

  • Across a range of health issues Black people experience worse outcomes – in many instances pseudo-scientific ideas and outmoded guidelines are to blame

    Is systemic racism in medicine putting Black people’s lives at risk?

  • sickle cells in blood flow illustration

    ‘Life-changing’ drug for sickle cell disease to be offered by NHS in England

April 2024

  • Oncologist looking at MRI scan results

    ‘Kinder’ treatment for childhood brain cancer to be offered by NHS in England

  • A woman uses a pipette in a laboratory

    People with MND in England and Wales fear losing access to life-extending drug

  • Young woman with headache

    Patients in England to be offered daily pill that can halve migraine frequency

  • Close-up of dental patient with mouth open

    How infective endocarditis deaths among UK dental patients can be avoided

March 2024

  • Portrait of Cheri Nel with one of her dogs

    Fair Access
    South Africans take on big pharma for access to ‘miracle’ cystic fibrosis drug

    Cheri Nel cannot afford Vertex’s Trikafta medicine, so she is suing to end ‘patent abuse’ and allow a generic version
  • George Monbiot

    ‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal

    George Monbiot
    The notion that this illness is psychosomatic is having devastating effects, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
    • The Price of Life by Jenny Kleeman review – the uncomfortable cost of living

    • Why disturbing leaks from US gender group WPATH ring alarm bells in the NHS

      Hannah Barnes
    • ‘A healthy kid dies and there has been no change’: parents’ anger over lack of warnings for blockbuster asthma drug

February 2024

  • Stock image of a person with a shaved head.

    Drug to treat alopecia recommended for NHS use for first time

    Ritlecitinib, taken once a day, approved by Nice for severe hair loss caused by autoimmune disease

January 2024

  • Tablets in a hand.

    People severely ill with suspected sepsis should be given antibiotics, Nice says

    National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says national early warning score should be used to assess severity of illness

December 2023

  • Woman at therapy session

    Offering CBT for menopause symptoms is about giving women choice

  • Johanna Tate

    I have cystic fibrosis but experts say drugs for others like me are too expensive. What price a life?

    Johanna Tate
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