Is the UK prepared for TB threat?

Posted by on Oct 11, 2006 in Uncategorized | 10 comments While the UK gears itself in its usual haphazard way for influenza and bird flu, what thought is it giving to the threat of a TB outbreak? Health officials raised the alert yesterday over a new drug-resistant and more deadly form of tuberculosis, saying the disease now posed a more serious threat to Europe than at any time since the Second World War. TB is described as the world’s...
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Why isn’t £2.50 a day value for money for Alzheimer sufferers?

Posted by on Oct 11, 2006 in Alzheimer's | 2 comments I don’t understand the reasons for NICE’s refusal to allow Alzheimer sufferers access to drugs costing £2.50 a day at the early stage of this terrible, soul destroying illness. There was enough evidence on the news this morning from sufferers who described the incredible difference it had made to their lives in a matter of weeks. If the drugs do not prove effective, then surely the...
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