Campaigners have lost an appeal to make a bowel cancer drug widely available on the NHS. Charities Cancer backup and Bowel Cancer UK appealed against a decision by the health watchdog to reject the drug Erbitux (cetuximab) for use on the NHS. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) ruled last August that Erbitux was not cost-effective.
Eight out of ten of people support a law change to allow doctors to actively end the lives of terminally ill patients who want to die, a poll shows. However only 60% supported doctors prescribing, but not administering, drugs someone could use to end their own life. The British Social Attitudes report surveyed 3,000 people.
A campaign to tackle misunderstanding and prejudice about disabled people is urgently needed, Liberal Democrat Disability Spokesperson, Danny Alexander MP said today after the British Social Attitudes survey revealed negative views are still widely held.
Calls today (Wednesday 24th January) by Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell MP for British forces to begin a "staged withdrawal" from Iraq in May, with the last forces leaving by the end of October, have been backed by Dundee Liberal Democrats.
"You may be aware that today I led a debate in the House of Commons over the new Liberal Democrat strategy for bringing British troops home from Iraq by the end of October. You can read and watch more about what I said at http://tinyurl.com/26ykb8
The Council ran two "workshops" on 19th January to discuss the Upper High Street development area. They received such an encouraging response that the doors had to be closed at the 3.00 pm session. Those who couldn't get in were asked to attend the evening meeting instead. This too was packed out, with standing room only. Cllr Julie Morris, a member of the Council's working party that set up this event said "The turn-out was really tremendous. The Council should learn from this and in future automatically arrange similar events for all major development sites in Epsom and Ewell".
