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Cosmetic surgery report shows depressing decline of self-esteem - The Times 3rd November 2009
"Any parent of a young girl reading the report on teenage girls' attitude to cosmetic surgery would be well advised to equip themselves with a small glass of something fortifying beforehand.\n\nThere are large swaths of it that will make you want to take your precious daughters to the farthest-flung corner of northern Canada, thereafter to exist only in the company of moose. "
Half of secondary school girls considering cosmetic surgery, Guides study finds - The Times 3rd November 2009
"Almost half of all secondary school girls say they would undergo laser treatment, liposuction or some form of plastic surgery to change the way they look, according to a new study of social attitudes."
Cameron lays out plans to save millions in NHS reform - The Times 3rd November 2009
"David Cameron promised yesterday to cut the cost of running the NHS by a third while handing day-to-day management of the health service over to an independent body.
The Tory leader guaranteed that up to £1.5 billion of savings on bureaucracy would be reinvested elsewhere in the health service. He also pledged to extend “patient power” and to create a rebranded Department of Public Health if his party won the next election. "
Cameron's NHS board is all well and good; where will the buck stop? - The Times 3rd November 2009
"When things go wrong in a David Cameron and Andrew Lansley-led health service, who will carry the can?
Under David Cameron’s blueprint released yesterday, day-to-day responsibility will be removed from ministers and handed to a council of doctors and managers known as the NHS board. Elected Tory politicians will set “strategic objectives”, but it will be for this body, effectively a super-quango, to oversee its £100 billion budget and execute its powers in whatever way it sees fit."
Mother: why my baby should be allowed to die - The Times 2nd November 2009
"A mother at the centre of a legal wrangle over a gravely ill baby today told why she felt her son should be allowed to die.
Anthony Fairweather, a solicitor acting for the boy's mother, said: "RB’s mother has sat by her son’s bedside every day since he was born. Every day she has seen the pain he experiences just to survive. "
Top 20 most harmful drugs, according to Professor David Nutt - The Times 2nd November 2009
"Alternative list of most harmful drugs, as drawn up by sacked government adviser"
Video: Alan Johnson orders review of expert panel at centre of drugs row - The Times 2nd November 2009
"Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, has ordered a swift review of the body at the centre of a row over the Government's drugs policy.
News that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) will have its functions scrutinised emerged just three days after Mr Johnson sacked the panel's chairman for comments critical of the Government's policy on cannabis. "
Cameron: sacking of drugs adviser David Nutt was 'unseemly' - The Times 2nd November 2009
"David Cameron called the sacking of the Government’s chief drugs adviser an “unseemly spat” today, but said that his party did not support any relaxation in the penalties for taking illegal drugs.
The Conservative leader said that scientists advising the Government should be able to give advice in a “clear and unvarnished way” but all people in the public eye had to think about the wider implications of what they said, he added. "
Scientists quit government drugs body over David Nutt sacking - The Times 2nd October 2009
"The Government is facing mass resignations from the official advisory body on drugs after the sacking of its chairman, The Times has learnt.
Two members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs quit yesterday in protest at Alan Johnson’s dismissal of David Nutt in a row over the relative harm caused by drugs and alcohol. "
Penalties for drug use must reflect harm - The Times 2nd October 2009
"In July this year I gave a lecture on the assessment of drug harms and how these relate to the legislation controlling drugs. According to Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, some contents of this lecture meant I had crossed the line from science to policy and so he sacked me. I do not know which comments were beyond the line or, indeed, where the line was, but the Government has lost its major expert on drugs and drug harms and may indeed lose the rest of its scientific advisers in the field. "
Advisers have a right to speak plainly, without being spun against - The Times 2nd October 2009
"This Government is fond of promoting its decisions as “evidence-based policy”, grounded in the findings of research. Civil servants and scientists, however, like to joke that what it really values is something rather different: policy-based evidence that justifies a course of action that has been decided on for political reasons."
Perils of advising on drug policy - The Times 2nd October 2009
"Sir, I was dismayed by the events leading up to David Nutt’s dismissal as chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. It is very disturbing to find, towards the end of my lengthy career in drug abuse research, that the Government places so little value on scientific evidence. During the past 40 years I have seen many decisions by Governments with which I disagreed, but not a single one of them motivated me to denounce it in the media. "
The drugs experts who are standing down - The Times 2nd October 2009
"Les King is considered one of the foremost experts on the synthetic, cannabis-like drug Spice. He is senior chemist on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and a part-time adviser to the Department of Health. He was expected to finish his term in December 2010. He has also advised the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, which among other roles allowed him to provide advice to new member states on drug legislation. "
Malaria vaccine for Africa likely to be distributed from 2015 - The Times 2nd October 2009
"The first vaccine against malaria is likely to be distributed in Africa from 2015 after the “milestone moment” of the continent’s largest final-stage drug trial, scientists have told The Times. "
Father of Baby RB fights hospital’s decision to turn off life support - The Times 2nd October 2009
"A father whose son was born with a rare neuromuscular condition will go to the High Court today to try to stop a hospital withdrawing support that keeps the child alive.
Doctors treating the one-year-old boy say that his quality of life is so poor that it would not be in his best interests to keep him alive. They say that they are supported in their action by the baby’s mother. The couple are separated. "
Digital 'smart' plaster that sends alerts to doctors goes on trial - The Times 2nd October 2009
"A “digital plaster” that is stuck to a patient’s body to track vital signs such as heart rate and breathing and then send alerts to doctors is being tested in a British hospital.
The groundbreaking technology, which is lightweight, low-powered and portable, is designed to provide round-the-clock monitoring of patients."
‘One-stop’ test for breast cancer to end agonising wait for result - The Times 31st October 2009
"A new “one-step” test allows breast cancer patients to be treated directly if their disease has spread, meaning that they no longer have to wait weeks for test results to come back or undergo a second operation.
Surgeons say that thousands of women undergoing surgery could benefit from the rapid diagnostic test, known as the breast lymph node assay. It is already being used at hospitals in Surrey and Portsmouth, and is due to be recommended for implementation across the NHS next year. "
Case study: ‘A great relief to know at once’ - The Times 31st October 2009
"Melloney Poole, 61, underwent surgery to remove a “spidery white mass” of a tumour that had developed on her left breast in January 2007. Thanks to tests being pioneered at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, she was among the first patients in England to receive the all-clear as she woke up from surgery, rather than having to wait anxiously for the news."
Patients who wait too long will get private care on the NHS - The Times 31st October 2009
"Patients who do not get the treatment that they need from the NHS within 18 weeks are to be given the legal right to free private care.
The Cabinet agreed this week that the legislation, placing maximum waiting times on the statute book for the first time, should be rushed through Parliament before the next election. "
Labour plays a waiting game with Tories over waiting lists - The Times 31st October 2009
"The reduction in NHS waiting lists is the most tangible achievement from all those billions of pounds and the years of often heavy-handed reform under Labour. Whereas an 18-month wait was once commonplace for operations such as hip replacements, now 18 weeks is seen as a minimum standard of care."
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