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HEALTH

Breast cancer drug approved for NHS in England

Around 1,000 people with HER2-low advanced breast cancer can now be offered Enhertu, NICE said, after a new price agreement with its manufacturers ended years of delay.

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Breast cancer drug approved for NHS in England
HEALTH

Human brain is ‘two separate organs’, Stanford study finds

The forebrain and hindbrain grow from separate embryonic cells that evolved independently, according to Stanford Medicine researchers, whose study was published in Nature

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Human brain is ‘two separate organs’, Stanford study finds
TRAVEL

Millisecond software fault caused UK flight chaos, NATS says

NATS said a preliminary report found the defect took about one millisecond to trigger, disrupting more than 2,000 flights and affecting hundreds of thousands of passenger

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Millisecond software fault caused UK flight chaos, NATS says
ENVIRONMENT

Heathrow expansion ‘not currently compatible’ with UK net zero

The Climate Change Committee said expansion could only fit the UK’s climate targets if the aviation industry was required to reach zero emissions by 2050.

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Heathrow expansion ‘not currently compatible’ with UK net zero