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Osborne family firm pays no corporation tax
By Lois Rogers and Jon Ungoed-Thomas GEORGE OSBORNE has shared in a £335,000 dividend payout from his family’s profitable wallpaper business — even though it has not paid any UK corporation tax for the past seven years. A Sunday Times analysis of the accounts of the parent company of the family business, Osborne & Little Group Ltd, reveals that it […]
For 60 years, Steve thought he was the only man in the world with this mortifying genital defect. But in fact it’s surprisingly common
Steve Baker, 62, from Essex, has hypospadias, a genital defect Those affected have a malformed opening in the penis ‘It affected my self-confidence and my entire personality’ Steve Baker’s entire life has been blighted by a condition that doctors, girlfriends, his siblings and even his own mother were too embarrassed to discuss with him, let […]
High Street chemists who charge the NHS £300 for skin creams that should cost £12
Sickening rip off sees NHS paying many times over the odds for products Countless patients with debilitating skin conditions are denied treatment Toby Butt, now 12, has lived with agonising eczema all this life Has been one of the lucky ones, getting a cheap and effective treatment Many patients with severe eczema, psoriasis or […]
Good news! Forget adventurous positions and eating the ‘right’ foods…having sex twice within an hour TRIPLES men’s fertility
New research from North Middlesex Hospital suggests that having sex twice within an hour could triple a man’s chance of becoming a father Crucially, it is the second attempt that is thought to count Experts say the results overturn the myth that men should ‘save up’ their sperm to have a baby From eating the […]
Scandal of patients denied 5p pill that shrinks cancer: Last week we revealed NHS pays crazily high prices for life extending drugs. But the madness doesn’t end there
Sickening rip-off sees patients not being offered effective ‘old’ treatments Instead, the emphasis is on the latest, often eyewateringly expensive drugs Cancer patient Mary Nike, 58, from Brewood, was treated with a 5p pill Within seven weeks of starting on a new treatment, the tumour in Mary Nike’s left breast had shrunk from 1½ […]
Sickening rip off: Smaller than a matchstick, this is a year’s dose of a life extending blood cancer drug. The NHS pays £115,000 for it – yet it costs just £100 to make
Mani Coulter, 42, from Caversham, Berks, had only months to live in 2012 Became one of first people in Britain to be given Kadcyla for breast cancer Three years on, she’s convinced the £90,000-a-year treatment saved her life Mani Coulter is testimony to the wonders of modern medicine. When she became one of the […]
New jab to end need for annual flu shot
SCIENTISTS believe they are close to creating a universal flu vaccine that could end the need for annual injections in as little as three years. A team of researchers from Seek, a small biotech firm in London, developed the FLU-v vaccine after working on a group of non mutating proteins that are common to all strains of the flu virus, including those that can cause pandemics. FLU-v accelerates the creation of particular groups of T-cells, a type of […]
Crippled by statins: Cholesterol-busting drugs left David in a wheelchair – but doctors insisted he keep taking them
David Purkiss started taking a statin when he was 44 He was at risk of a heart attack and was told it could protect him The carpenter, now 70, from Titchfield, developed terrible muscle pains When David Purkiss was told he was at risk of a heart attack, and taking a cholesterol-lowering statin could protect him, it […]
Targeting metabolic pathways: why are we missing a trick in cancer treatment?
BIOLOGICAL AND TARGETED THERAPIES, IMMUNOTHERAPY ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE: 30 JULY, 2015 AUTHOR: LOIS ROGERS A new route to effective cancer treatment is emerging from research showing impressive results from drug cocktails of immunotherapy and metabolic medicines alongside conventional chemotherapy. The evidence from a growing number of studies suggests that using this approach to interfere with […]
The cut-price fertility boost that childless couples are not told about: IUI versus IVF ‘comes down to profit margins’, say doctors
Lois Rogers The Daily Mail 27 July 2015 Tracy Hedges, 36, from Dudley, was convinced she’d never conceive She’d been through four years of failed attempts to get pregnant and IVF Tried much more basic process known as IUI (intrauterine insemination) Helped her and husband Keith to have baby Maia, who is now two Just […]