A substance found in oven cleaner could be used to treat the eye disease glaucoma, US research suggests. Cerium oxide nanoparticles, also commonly used in window cleaner, may help in more effectively delivering an active ingredient into the eye.
A draft decision not to make drugs for a leading cause of blindness widely available on the NHS will cost many people their sight, campaigners say. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) assessed treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
A statement to Shepway District Council last night by East Kent NHS Facilities Director Howard Jones confirmed that the NHS Trust are continuing with their plan to sell the main building of the Royal Victoria Hospital, probably for residential development.
At yesterday's PMQs Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ming Campbell quizzed Tony Blair over the BAE affair, asking him which minister was answerable for the decision to withhold information about payments made by the Ministry of Defence to Prince Bandar. Following the Prime Minister's response in which he took responsibility for this decision, Sir Ming Campbell asked the PM to tell the House: "what payments have been made since 2002? What he knew about these payments and when he knew? And what legal advice he took after these payments after the law changed here in 2002? And finally whatever happened to Robin Cook's foreign policy with an ethical dimension?"
Dundee LibDems today (Thursday 14th June) welcomed news that the Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Menzies Campbell MP has unveiled proposals for building one million new socially rented, affordable and low cost homes by 2020.
The Liberal Democrats want to "ensure the face of council housing is changed forever" by building a million social homes over the next 10 years. Sir Menzies Campbell said it was a "national disgrace" that cities are "too often known for 'sink estates'". In his "revolution", Sir Menzies would introduce a building programme of 100,000 social, low-cost affordable homes per year. Social housing has become ghettoised - assigned only to the poorest and most vulnerable - with just one third of working age tenants in full-time jobs. We need to break the pattern of the past 10 years with a revolution in housing policy.
