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4 days ago
Avandia has been linked to an increased risk of heart attacksA diabetes drug prescribed to hundreds of thousands of patients is still available on the NHS months after a committee of experts recommended its "prompt" withdrawal due to potential health risks.The regulatory confusion surrounding Avandi[...]
2 weeks ago
Diabetes UK examining whether foods rich in fibre could supress appetites and reduce blood sugar levelsResearchers are investigating whether foods including garlic and asparagus could help weight loss and diabetes. In news that could make ardent vegans and vegetarians feel a little smug, the charity[...]
2 weeks ago
You cite Lucy Boggis living in a caravan as a novel way of coping with living costs while trying to achieve an Olympic Games selection (Capital's house prices create new kind of Londoner: the camping commuter, 16 August).In the mid-60s I moved to Coventry for my first job. The city was then a boom t[...]
3 weeks ago
One of my prized possessions is a photo from the Guardian showing Ed Balls and Andy Burnham sharing a rotating double swing in an adventure playground when the Labour government announced a £235m fund to build 3,500 play facilities. This picture is in my park folder, because I and the other Friends[...]
4 weeks ago
Matt Wells returns to the Media Talk presenter's chair, and this week he's joined in the studio by John Plunkett and Josh Halliday.We begin with the "bloodbath" at Channel 5. Richard Desmond has started implementing his cost-cutting plans by axing seven members of his board. Who's next? Maggie Brow[...]
4 weeks ago
Coping with my MS has been a learning curve for me and my bosses – but Channel 4's initiative shows things are changingThis week, Channel 4 began its search for disabled presenters for their coverage of the Paralympics and have discussed the increased profile of their disabled onscreen talent over[...]
4 weeks ago
Suspended Dr Freddy Patel denied any wrongdoing after failing to spot evidence of attack and to preserve a blood clotThe pathologist who first ruled that newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died from natural causes at last year's London G20 protest today denied botching the postmortem examinations of two[...]
4 weeks ago
Sex workers fear spending on Olympics and World Cup might drive them out of Rio's largest open-air red light zoneNight fell on the sewage-clogged streets of Vila Mimosa, Rio's largest open-air red-light district, and the area's jukeboxes erupted into a cacophony of Abba, Lady Gaga and pounding Brazi[...]
6 weeks ago
The short burst of athletic competition is meant to give way to an Olympic legacy. Let's keep our fingers crossedFor an hour yesterday evening I gorged on the glamour of the coming games, served on a shiny tray by Britain's leading broadcasters. Two years to go until London's Olympiad and soaring ex[...]
6 weeks ago
Paul Norman at Estates Gazette has interviewed the chair and chief executive of the Olympic Park Development Company, whose task it is to deliver the East London regeneration dream. The provision of housing in the Park will be absolutely vital to this: the amount, the type, the people who live in it[...]
7 weeks ago
We absolutely agree with the findings of the Vascular Society and the Royal College of Surgeons (Shakeup call for vascular surgery over death rates, 22 July) that vascular surgery is in need of urgent review. Over the past few months, Commissioning Support for London has been working with clinicians[...]
7 weeks ago
Pathologist who carried out second postmortem on Ian Tomlinson makes his views public for first timeThe pathologist who carried out the second postmortem on Ian Tomlinson told the Guardian last night that he believed PC Simon Harwood's actions contributed to the newspaper vendor's death.Dr Nat Cary [...]
7 weeks ago
CPS admits decision not to prosecute rested on evidence of reprimanded pathologist Freddy PatelThe Crown Prosecution Service admitted today that the decision not to prosecute a police officer for the death of Ian Tomlinson rested on the evidence of a pathologist who has been officially reprimanded a[...]
8 weeks ago
The coalition has failed to commit fully to international aid, yet it is a policy that remains morally right and in our common interestFive years ago the context couldn't have been more different. Millions around the world wore white bands. Hundreds of thousands filled stadiums and fields to attend [...]
8 weeks ago
I'll enjoy the running and jumping but if the answer becomes a "no" then for me the Games will have failed. Judging progress towards those fine regeneration goals is no piece of cake, thanks to the plethora - sometimes it seems like a dog's dinner - of bodies, agencies, departments, companies and co[...]
8 weeks ago
Tomorrow's final will crown a World Cup that has united a nation. But if South Africa can deliver a global mega-event, why can't it tackle its inequality with the same energy and efficiency?Sixteen years after experiencing the unforgettable rush of belonging and relief at Nelson Mandela's inaug[...]
8 weeks ago
Fast food giant to help prepare 'games makers' for wide range of roles, from interpreting and first aid to checking ticketsMcDonald's is to help recruit and train 70,000 volunteers who will be involved in staging the London 2012 Olympics, it was announced today.It is believed the fast food giant's c[...]
9 weeks ago
Police in Manchester logged 353 incidents on the day Germany beat England, 15.7% higher than the same day last yearFears that the World Cup would be accompanied by a surge in domestic violence appear to have been realised, with one police force recording the greatest number of incidents since 1 Janu[...]
9 weeks ago
Paul Norman of Estates Gazette has been closely tracking the troubling saga of the Olympic Park and its delayed transfer to the ownership of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (see here and here and here and elsewhere on his blog). The company, set up a year ago, has the enormous task of making the Gam[...]
9 weeks ago
G8 commitments to fight poverty are life-and-death issues. They require professional management, not empty promisesWhen hosting the 2010 G8 summit of major economies, the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, called for an "accountability summit" to hold the G8 responsible for the promises that i[...]
10 weeks ago
Government publishes salaries of top employees, 158 of whom earn more than prime ministerThe government today publishes the names and salary bands of 158 quango employees who earn more than the prime minister, topped by the head of the body building the venues for the 2012 Olympics.David Higgins, th[...]
10 weeks ago
I cycled to the Olympic Park on Sunday with one of my sons in tow. It was my first visit for a while. The International Broadcasting Centre and Main Press Centre are now fully-formed edifices on which the post-Games regeneration hopes of Hackney Council are pinned. I think I spotted one of the Leaba[...]
10 weeks ago
Germany's football team is the most ethnically diverse in the country's historyYagiz Dogan is hankering after a pair of orange and silver trainers similar to those worn by German footballer Mesut Ozil. "I'm saving up for them, after all he's my hero," says the 15-year-old, who lives in a flat in the[...]
10 weeks ago
While G8 and G20 leaders are devising plans to ensure food security, farmers continue to remain on the sidelines. Why the disconnect, asks David King, secretary general of the International Federation of Agricultural ProducersThis weekend, as G8 and G20 leaders gather in Canada to discuss the most [...]
10 weeks ago
PM rebukes European countries but admits he did not fight to include reference to Gleneagles pledge in textDavid Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.[...]
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