All posts by MWN
My girl was judged too young to live
The Sunday Times 21 April 2013 Chloe Drury died aged 17 after being refused access to a trial drug CHLOE DRURY’S mother says her teenage daughter was too young to die but, as a result of the inflexible system of prescribing experimental drugs, was deemed too young to live. The 17-year-old, who had been diagnosed […]
Dying beg to become medical guinea pigs
The Sunday Times 14 April 2013 A COALITION of influential medical figures is to spearhead a campaign to allow the terminally ill access to unlicensed experimental drugs. The Right to Try campaign has been inspired by Les Halpin, a millionaire who is suffering from motor neurone disease (MND), a degenerative condition of the nervous […]
Fill by mouth
Can a collagen drink really keep you looking young? The Sunday Times 24 February 2013 Anti-ageing wonder foods, beauty “cosmeceuticals” that you put in your mouth rather than on your skin, are set to become the boom of the decade. Collagen-containing coffee, marshmallows, yoghurts and food additives have taken the Far East by storm and […]
Who Cares?
The Mid Staffs scandal has thrown a light on the growing role of untrained healthcare assistants The Sunday Times 1o February 2013 As she visited her mother, a heart patient on an acute hospital ward, Ann Smith, a nurse trained in the 1980s, was dismayed to discover no one was monitoring whether the 78-year-old was […]
Epilepsy drug link to brain damage in 17,500 babies
The Sunday Times 3 February 2013 Lois Rogers AN ESTIMATED 17,500 babies with mental development disorders have been born to mothers using the anti-epilepsy drug Epilim in pregnancy, according to a new study. It is estimated that more than one in three babies born to mothers using Epilim since its launch in 1973, have suffered […]
‘I will do everything to protect our baby from evil’
Daksha Emson set fire to herself and her baby daughter. She had been suffering from a postnatal psychosis that can turn mothers into murderers The Sunday Times 13 January 2012 Lois Rogers David Emson began an otherwise unremarkable autumn afternoon threading his way impatiently through London’s rush-hour crowds. A hospital radiographer, full of the joys […]
Male infertility Male infertility is soaring. So why do doctors keep blaming the woman when she can’t have a baby?
The Daily Mail 5 December 2012 Lois Rogers To the outside world, Dennis Robinson has an enviable life. Happily married to an attractive woman with a comfortable home and a secure job, he is a father figure to his wife’s eight-year-old son. There is, however, a yawning chasm in Dennis’s life. He cannot father a […]
Something fishy
Omega 3 supplements are said to help everything from your heart to your brain, but new research casts doubt on some of their claimed benefits The Sunday Times Published 7 October 2012 Lois Rogers LIKE lots of small boys, Charlie Watson was a handful. Although clearly bright, he would not sit still at school, he […]
Voice-lift ops put aged back on song
The elderly are turning to a new kind of cosmetic surgery to restore the vocal power of their youth The Sunday Times Published 16 September 2012 Lois Rogers SURGEONS are reaping the rewards from Britain’s ageing population by offering treatments that can restore the youthful tone to voices. With increasing numbers of elderly people wishing […]
Hats off to science – a gene cure for baldness is nigh
The Sunday Times 19 August 2012 Lois Rogers SCIENTISTS believe they have unlocked the secret of baldness after discovering an enzyme that tells hair follicles to switch off. Drugs to block the effects of the enzyme, called prostaglandin D2 (PGD2), are already available because it is also implicated in asthma and other allergic conditions. As […]