“A high court judge today ordered a review of guidelines on access to anti-dementia drugs, in a landmark ruling that favoured drugs companies and the Alzheimer’s Society.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Campaigners are set to learn if they have won their High Court battle over the availability of Alzheimer’s drugs for people with early-stage disease.”
BBC News, 10th August 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman with cancer who was refused a drug that could prolong her life has won her High Court case to overturn the decision.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Doctors and scientists have come together to endorse the safety of the MMR vaccine, ahead of a disciplinary hearing today involving the researchers who first linked it to health risks.”
The Times, 16th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Public health doctors are bracing themselves for a further decline in public confidence in the MMR jab as the long-awaited hearing into alleged serious professional misconduct by Andrew Wakefield and two other doctors gets under way at the General Medical Council on Monday.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A pensioner aged 84 is suing an NHS trust over its refusal to pay for drugs to save his sight in the first such case to be backed by Britain’s leading charity for the blind.”
The Independent, 9th July 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government’s medicines watchdog was accused today of “irrationally and unlawfully” withholding drugs which could help thousands of people suffering from early-stage dementia.”
The Times, 25th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“People with Alzheimer’s disease and their carers will today protest outside the high court at the start of a major legal challenge to the body that decides which drugs people may be given on the NHS.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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