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NICE’s methodology means people with cancer aren’t getting drugs – AstraZeneca’s Sir Pascal Soriot said | Business News
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The chief executive of AstraZeneca has criticised a public health body for refusing to make one of its breast cancer treatments available to NHS patients in England and Wales. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) decided in March this year that patients should be denied access to Enhertu because it said the…
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Sell NHS medical records to fund cutting-edge treatments, Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague say | UK News
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Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague have issued a joint call for NHS medical records to be sold to fund the development of cutting-edge treatments. Britain’s former prime minister and the ex-Conservative leader have produced a report of more than 40 recommendations on regulation and state support, to help the UK remain at the forefront…
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Pioneering surgeon Sir Roy Calne who carried out Europe’s first liver transplant dies | UK News
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Professor Sir Roy Calne, a pioneering surgeon who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died at the age of 93. Sir Roy died in Cambridge late on Saturday evening, his family said. The surgeon led the landmark transplant operation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, on 2 May 1968. In 1978, he became the…
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Deepfake audio of Sir Keir Starmer released on first day of Labour conference | Politics News
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Deepfake videos of Sir Keir Starmer have been posted on the first day of Labour Party conference in a move that underlines the threat posed by deepfake technology and AI in UK politics. The fake video of the Labour leader emerged on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday morning as senior figures and party…
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Sir Brian May ‘immensely proud’ to be part of Osiris-Rex asteroid sample team | Ents & Arts News
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Sir Brian May has said he is “immensely proud” to be part of the team who successfully collected NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space. A capsule containing around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert near Salt Lake City on Sunday. Earlier in the day, the…
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Sir Ian Wilmut: Scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep was no wild-eyed Frankenstein | Science & Tech News
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Modest, mild-mannered and unassuming, Ian Wilmut didn’t fit the popular stereotype of the pioneering scientist. But his work that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996 wasn’t just a landmark in regenerative medicine – it helped reshape the relationship between science and society. The biological significance of Dolly the sheep is often misunderstood. She wasn’t the…
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Sir Ian Wilmut: Scientist who led team which cloned Dolly the sheep dies | UK News
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Sir Ian Wilmut, the man who led the team behind the famous cloned sheep Dolly, has died. Described as a “titan of the scientific world”, he was 79. Announcing Sir Ian’s death, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, the vice chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said: “We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of…
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Sir Keir Starmer warns AI could ‘worsen inequality and leave some communities poorer’ | UK News
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will warn that artificial intelligence (AI) may worsen inequality and leave some communities poorer. In a speech at the London Tech Week conference on Tuesday, Sir Keir will argue that while the UK has an opportunity to lead the world in new technologies, it will require partnerships with business for…
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Sir James Dyson claims Rishi Sunak’s science superpower pledge is hot air | Politics News
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Billionaire businessman Sir James Dyson has issued fresh criticism of the prime minister, claiming his pledge to turn the UK into a science and technology superpower is a “mere political slogan”. The founder and chief engineer of the multinational technology company Dyson also complained – in a letter to The Times – that he has…
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Fossil of ‘first animal predator’ named after Sir David Attenborough | Science & Tech News
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A fossil of the earliest known animal predator has been named after Sir David Attenborough by the geologists who discovered it. The 560-million-year-old creature is the first of its kind to have ever been identified and is believed to be the earliest known creature with a skeleton. It was found in Charnwood Forest near Leicester…