Health
Labour launches concerted effort to tackle Scotland’s alcohol “time bomb”
Scottish Labour has launched a concerted effort to cap the amount of caffeine in some alcoholic drinks such as Buckfast wine.
Coalition’s new mental health strategy should be supported
With very little fanfare, and very little follow up in the media, the coalition has announced how it plans to frame its strategy on an issue which affects one in four of us – not that we like to talk about it very much.
Roche vs NICE: NICE right not to take up Avastin
Once again NICE, the NHS rationing ‘quango’, has been in the news with its decision not to recommend the Roche manufactured drug Avastin for metastatic bowel cancer. The roots of the decision and the history between Roche and NICE go back a bit further though.
Coalition cuts endanger the poorest children on UK roads
Recent announcements of the coalition government’s cuts are to dramatically worsen the plight of Britain’s poorest and most underprivileged children, new research reveals.
Cancer: ‘Mortality’ and ‘survival’ rates are not the same
Cancer – and particularly Breast Cancer – has become a political football with questions being asked over whether very large […]
The ‘death tax’: worth a second look after all says Lansley
Britain’s ageing population is a national success story. Life expectancy is the highest on record, the product of universal improvements in healthcare, social support and education...