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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Illegal Parking in Japan
29-Sep-06Euston and Labour
29-Sep-06Blair left the Labour Party conference platform with a superb speech, and didn’t shirk from tackling the area which many consider is the primary cause of the decline in his reputation: foreign policy and the war on terror. You can watch it in full here.
[T]he new anxiety is the global struggle against terrorism without mercy [...]
TGN1412 mentioned in Dispatches
26-Sep-06Brian Deer has been using the Freedom of Information Act to look into TGN1412:
Confidential documents obtained by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme reveal the drug was administered on average 15 times more quickly to the volunteers than to monkeys in earlier safety studies. The possibility that such a crude error led to [...]
No Excuses For Terror
26-Sep-06Don’t Get Me Started (Documentary)
Time – 19:15 – 20:00 (45 minutes long)
When – Tuesday 26th September
Where – Channel 5
David Aaronovitch: No Excuses For Terror.
Provocative series of polemics. Who is really responsible for the suicide bombers that target us? Is it the fault of George Bush or Tony Blair? Are we all somehow to blame? David [...]
IOM report on FDA
24-Sep-06The FDA have been criticised in an Institute of Medicine report:
Two years after the withdrawal of the pain-killer Vioxx, the Food and Drug Administration still can’t adequately track the safety of new drugs and respond quickly to problems, a panel of experts said Friday.
The Institute of Medicine said the FDA needs more money, people and [...]
The Benghazi Six
22-Sep-06Nature carries an editorial about the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor held by the Libyans on false charges of infecting children with HIV.
International diplomacy, dealing as it does with geopolitical and economic realpolitik, by necessity often involves turning a blind eye. But its lack of progress in response to the medics’ case in Libya [...]
Aneurin Bevan and NHS Logistics
22-Sep-06Thinking about the NHS Logistic strike, I wondered what Aneurin Bevan might have made of it. Consider the following from his speech on the Second reading of the NHS Bill on 30 April 1946.
Members in all parts of the House – that consideration should now be given, not to this or that sectional interest, but [...]
Books to Iraq update
21-Sep-06Books to Iraq is currently in the process of sorting out the first shipment of books to an Iraqi University. Yesterday we had some publicity in the Birmingham Mail (click on thumbnail). However, I would stress that we are trying to restrict ourselves to supplying new medical and pharmaceutical textbooks, rather than ones people no [...]
Experiments on British Troops
20-Sep-06I have a letter in The Guardian, which is a much shortened version of my post on allegations of experiments on British troops.
The accusation that injured British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are being experimented on is a serious charge (Experimental drug given to British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, September 16). However, given that [...]