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Cocaine Unwrapped, a film by Rachael Seifert
9 May 2012
Film review: 'Cocaine Unwrapped'
Cocaine Unwrapped, a documentary film directed by Rachel Seifert, went on general release from 5 May, writes Paul Heron
14 December 2011
Readers' comments: David Cameron recently announced plans to fast-track new drugs, making them available to patients more quickly, and before they have completed clinical trials, writes Paul Gerrard.
9 February 2011
On 1 February it was announced that 2,400 workers at Pfizer's research and development facility in Sandwich, Kent, will be made redundant after the company's decision to close the site completely...
26 May 2010
NHS cuts: The Con-Dem sting in the tail
MANY LONDONERS will have been relieved to hear the recent announcement that the Con-Dem coalition will scrap plans made by the Labour government to close hospital A&E departments across the capital, writes Sarah Wrack.
3 November 2009
Every million helps (2): SHOWING ALL the sensitivity of a large pair of hobnail boots, Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier pocketed nearly £1 million in pay and bonuses for 2008/09...
14 January 2009
The NHS today - can it meet everyone's health needs?
Desperately ill patients are being denied expensive drugs that could treat their conditions. Local NHS trusts claim they don't have the money and that treating one person with a drug costing thousands...
7 January 2009
GSK (Glaxo Smith Klein) is adding to the growing ranks of the unemployed. GSK made over £6 billion last year but that is not enough, they want more, transferring high paid jobs here for cheap wages in...
25 November 2008
Top-up payments for private health care another step towards two-tier National Health
THE GOVERNMENT recently decided to let patients in England 'top-up' their NHS care with payments for private treatments not available on the NHS, writes Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS councillor.
14 June 2007
Stem cell potential to break medicine bottleneck
Stem cell research: Roy Farrar looks into these possibilities, and the controversies around them....
22 February 2007
Drug companies squeeze profits out of health
AN OFFICE of Fair Trading (OFT) report says that the NHS is paying the pharmaceutical companies hundreds of millions of pounds too much for drugs...
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