Getty Images The UK’s National Screening Committee has recommended that only a very small group of men at high risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease. There is currently no screening programme for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. But there has been some energetic campaigning for change by high-profile…
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Available for over a year Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Inquiry, delivers her second report into the way the four governments of the UK responded to the pandemic. Summarising her conclusions as ‘too little, too late’, she outlines a failure by each government “to appreciate the scale of the threat or the urgency of the…
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Getty Images A screening programme for prostate cancer for all men in the UK is not justified, according to a hugely influential group of experts. Instead they say only men with specific genetic mutations that lead to more aggressive tumours should be eligible. That would rule out black men who…
The team did publish what they called a “sanitized” version of the poems in the paper: “A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat. To learn its craft, one studies every turn— how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn. Describe the method, line by measured line, that shapes…
Joanne WrittleWest Midlands health correspondent, in Shropshire BBC Kayleigh Griffiths lost her one-day-old daughter, Pippa due to maternity failings When Kayleigh Griffiths lost her baby daughter, Pippa, in 2016 through maternity failings in Shropshire, she had no idea how many times she would have to retell her traumatic story at future medical appointments. She has…
Sharon Barbourand Mary O’Reilly,BBC Local Investigations BBC Kate Driver says her cancer diagnosis was delayed and she was not offered the option of breast reconstruction Breast cancer patients suffered unnecessary mastectomies, delayed diagnoses and a lack of compassionate care at an NHS Trust in north-east England, the BBC has learned. More than 200 cases are…
We are delighted to announce Rapid7 launched a new Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud region in India with the API name ap-south-2. This follows an announcement in March 2025, when Rapid7 announced plans for expansion in India, including the opening of a new Global Capability Center (GCC) in Pune to serve as an innovation hub…
Security teams have long depended on SIEM tools as the backbone of threat detection and response. But the threat landscape, and the technology required to defend against it, has changed dramatically. Rapid7’s new whitepaper, The End of Legacy SIEM and the Rise of Incident Command, examines why legacy SIEM models can no longer keep up…
Every industry has their it’s-that-time-of-year-again rituals, and the cybersecurity industry is no different. The spring ushers in RSA, August is Hacker Summer Camp, October brings with it Cybersecurity Awareness Month — and, before we know it, it’s the end of the year and we’re once again making our “predictions” of what lies ahead. A wise…
