A British Labor MP has suggested that
Tamiflu tablets (oseltamivir) - unused because the H1N1 flu pandemic was never
as severe in the UK as anticipated - could be used as grit for icy roads in
Britain's big freeze.
Medécins Sans Frontières has called on the
world's largest drug manufacturers to break the intellectual property code and
give up patent protection by agreeing to pool their patents on new HIV
medications.
The BMA says that the UK Government has not
succeeded in what it has called its central policy to broaden access to the
medical profession for people from all social backgrounds.
Regulators in Europe and the US have taken action against the weight loss drug sibutramine because of concerns that it could increase risk of adverse cardiovascular events in overweight patients with a history of cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes.
The cross-party UK Parliamentary Select
Committee on Science and Technology has recommended that the Brown Government
stop funding homeopathic treatments because they are "scientifically implausible",
are not medicines and work no better than placebos.
The UK Food Standards
Agency (FSA) has confirmed its position that adding folic acid to flour should
be compulsory in Britain, following debate about the effect of its intake on
children during pregnancy and its interaction with vitamin B12
deficiency.
The largest study ever conducted in the US on surgeon burnout has found that factors causing medical errors go well beyond fatigue.
