Experts investigating a disastrous drug trial that nearly killed six healthy volunteers in March yesterday urged the government to impose strict measures to make future clinical trials safer. Professor Gordon Duff's expert scientific group presented 22 final recommendations to the government designed to spot potentially dangerous drugs before they enter trials and to minimise the risks to volunteers.
A world-famous British scientist failed to disclose that he held a paid consultancy with a chemical company for more than 20 years while investigating cancer risks in the industry, the Guardian can reveal.
Concern that hundreds of members of the public may have been at risk of radioactive poisoning during the killing of Alexander Litvinenko were raised last night by the discovery that seven hotel workers have consumed polonium-210.
The news that obesity can increase the risk of cancer (Obesity epidemic may trigger 12,000 cancer cases a year, December 5) has been well documented in scientific research. The link between nutrition and cancer was published in the 1997 expert report Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer by the World Cancer Research Fund.
Screening women in their 40s for breast cancer cuts death rates from the disease by 17 per cent, but may still not be worth doing, researchers say.
Thousands of people are at risk from an outbreak of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease spread by contaminated blood or infected surgical instruments.
Controversial plans to let wife beaters avoid jail if they appeared genuinely remorseful were dropped yesterday.
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