Anyone who suspects they have swine flu will from next week receive Tamiflu on request without the need for a prescription, as the government moves to ease pressure on doctors.
Sir Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer, said that the National Pandemic …
Patients with late-stage cancers should gain more rapid access to innovative treatments through the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government on Tuesday.In a blueprint concluding months of consultations with industry, the Office for Life Sciences earmarked an …
Pharmaceutical companies should grant rival manufacturers the right to produce their HIV medicines, a group of MPs will recommend today in the UK.They should also publish independent audits of their efforts to increase access to treatment as demand surges in the developing world, the MPs will say.
Efforts to make newer and more costly vaccines widely available to the poorest in Africa are being hampered by a long-standing system that makes vaccines affordable to middle-income Latin American countries.The board of the Pan American Health Organ-isation will this week discuss its 鈥渞evolving fund鈥?for vaccine purchases as concerns mount that it deters manufacturers from offering deeper discounts on such products to the world鈥檚 least developed countries.
With the UK government warning employers to prepare for up to an eighth of their employees to be absent from work because of swine flu in the coming weeks, some businesses could be stretched to the limit.
There again, things could …
Yesterday the British Medical Journal published a systematic review and meta-analysis on flu drugs (where all trials, published and unpublished, are searched for and combined, making for a more powerful and reliable conclusion) about the effects of antiviral medication in seasonal flu in children.
In the past five months, the world鈥檚 stock markets have gained more than 50 per cent. Anyone who timed the rally right should now be feeling much happier. Others may at least have recouped a chunk of last year鈥檚 losses.
The …
The dollar held on to its recent sharp gains on Monday as traders questioned its relationship with risk.
The dollar advanced strongly on Friday, gaining over 2 per cent against the yen and more than one per cent against the …
Have you ever worked for a boss who rarely took a vacation, and wouldn鈥檛 dream of leaving the office early to take her mother to the doctor, or see her son鈥檚 school recital?
I have. It was miserable. It was one of my first jobs out of university. I felt like I wasn鈥檛 entitled to a holiday; after all, if my superior wasn鈥檛 taking time away from the office, I didn鈥檛 deserve to either. And God forbid I have any personal obligations outside of
my professional ones: my boss didn鈥檛 have them, and neither should I.
My eldest and I have been giggling at a book 鈥淔 in Exams: The Funniest Test Paper Blunders鈥? which includes such gems as:
Q: Name two religions.
A: The Force (Jedi) and Football.
This amused us greatly.
What鈥檚 the difference with this next multiple choice one?.
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