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• NICE reaches important milestone in the UK’s efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance.

  Two new antimicrobial drugs are close to becoming the first to be made available as part of the UK’s innovative subscription-style payment model.

• Keep the size of your waist to less than half of your height, NICE recommends

  People are being encouraged to keep their waist measurement to less than half their height to reduce the risk of potential health problems.

• NICE says new triple negative advanced breast cancer drug too expensive for NHS use

  NICE has issued draft guidance which does not recommend sacituzumab govitecan for treating locally advanced or metastatic triple negative breast cancer.

• Hundreds of people with some forms of urothelial cancer to receive new treatment

  People with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer are set to benefit from a new treatment – avelumab – following its recommendation for funding

• NICE calls for further research into the treatment of chronic lipoedema

  NICE has today issued interventional procedures guidance on the use of liposuction for the treatment of chronic lipoedema.

• NICE publishes comprehensive quality standard designed to improve the diagnosis and assessment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

  NICE’s latest quality standard published today (16 March 2022) helps improve the diagnosis, assessment, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).