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...Reporting by Valentina Romei, Laura Onita, Sarah Neville, Stephen Morris, Sid Venkatarakrishnan, Oliver Barnes, Oliver Telling and Leke Oso Alabi...
...Using extensive interviews and documentary evidence, investigative journalist Barnes pieces together how concerns about puberty blockers were sidelined and internal disquiet ignored....
...PMI also angered health charities, public health experts and doctors over its £1.1bn takeover of UK-based asthma inhaler maker Vectura, one of a series of acquisitions to speed up PMI’s move away from cigarettes...
...Time to Think is an exemplary and detailed analysis of a place whose doctors, Barnes writes, most commonly describe it as “mad”. This is a powerful and disturbing book....
...Congratulations to Richard Barnes of London, overall winner after the tiebreaker. We invite readers again to submit answers to this year’s 20 questions and tiebreaker, giving their real name and email....
...Time’s Arrow (1991) used reverse chronology to reconstruct the life of a Holocaust doctor, one of several times that Amis tackled Nazism, genocide and Stalinism as subjects....
...Doctors are running out of potential treatments....
...It was the last Barnes novel I really enjoyed — neither The Only Story nor Elizabeth Finch really worked for me....
...for South Africa’s first democratic election; Gertrude Fester, deprived of writing materials while serving time for treason, wrote a play in her head that has been staged worldwide; Mamphela Ramphele, a doctor...
...“Most Runes sit in heated garages as part of highly polished collections,” says Barnes....
...(Chris Giles has written a good piece on how British homeowners are still paying the price of Truss’s regime, while, as Oliver Barnes explains, the picture is no better for renters.)...
...The listing touted the “immediate road access” from the property, but to Singh and his wife, both of whom are NHS doctors, it was a turn-off....
...We’ve got to give our doctors and our nurses the wherewithal, the funding, to deal with that.”...
...“I could not get through to either the hospital or the care home until March 30, when a Donghai doctor called me to say my father had passed away.”...
...In February 2020, Imrie was diagnosed with motor neurone disease: “the three words [doctors] most dread having to say”....
...In a separate development, the government came under fire from trade unions after recommending a below inflation pay rise of between 2 per cent and 3 per cent for NHS staff other than doctors, dentists and...
...Coronavirus prompted about 18,829 of nurses, doctors and other medical workers in the health service to be absent on December 19, from around 12,000 a week earlier, according to official data....
...The department for health and social care said the NHS had added more than 5,000 doctors and nearly 10,000 nurses over the past year....
...“I’ve talked to doctors who say the numbers are running up to 90 per cent of people in intensive care.” Government insiders said this figure was based on anecdotal evidence from some NHS trusts....
...“We need to do smart testing by ensuring supplies get through to key workers looking to avoid or end their self-isolation period,” she said, echoing calls by doctors and nurses’ representatives....
...“The risk is that we will be caring for people in a ratio that the UK has never seen in terms of number of nurses to patients, or number of doctors to patients, and that will have a direct effect on survival...
...becoming a significant push factor away from what have been some of the most desirable locations around the world, from cities and rural tourist hotspots to island locations such as Hawaii,” says Yolande Barnes...
...[In fact], the proportion of patients admitted with severe disease are quite low, and lower than what we’ve seen across the rest of the pandemic,” said Waasila Jassat, a doctor and NICD specialist, adding...
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