Michael Crick
Sue Lloyd-Roberts – can you help?
Sue Lloyd-Roberts is one most of the most extraordinary reporters in TV history – fearless, dogged and ground-breaking.
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Could a new law making organ donation compulsory save hundreds of lives?
Hundreds of people could be saved every year, according to ministers, by a new law on organ donation. It’ll make everyone in England a donor unless they explicitly opt out. The government is bringing in the new system after a consultation showed the vast majority of people approve of organ donation – but only a…
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Sickle cell sufferer receives life-transforming treatment
Imagine being in almost unbearable pain, constantly exhausted and fatigued. That’s what it’s like living with sickle cell anaemia, an inherited blood disorder which mostly affects people of African or Caribbean heritage. Last December, we first met Adawale Lawal, who was offered a new form of stem cell transplant with the potential to cure him…
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Sue Lloyd-Roberts: ‘brave and determined’ journalist dies
“A remarkable woman who got remarkable stories” – the BBC’s director general Tony Hall joins many others in paying tribute to the life and work of Sue Lloyd-Roberts, who has died of cancer.
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Sue Lloyd-Roberts finds donor
A matching stem cell donor has been found for former Channel 4 News journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts after an appeal.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS England accused of interference over hepatitis C drug
NHS England officials have been accused of trying to interfere with the appraisal of a new drug for hepatitis C sufferers due to their concerns overs its cost.
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Tom Clarke
Risks and potential rewards of ‘three-parent embryos’
As MPs prepare to debate the pros and cons of mitrochondrial donation, or “three-parent babies”, do we know enough about the risks involved?
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Paul Mason
Crucial moment for Europe as Greece’s government falls
The decision by Greek MPs to reject presidential candidate Stavros Dimas could be a crucial moment for the country, for the Eurozone and in global economics.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS asks Nice to delay ground-breaking hepatitis C drug
It’s a drug that cures hepatitis C in 90 per cent of cases – but a 12-week course costs £35,000. And now NHS England is worried that it’s too expensive.
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Tom Clarke
Why thin people might thank their gut for their girth
Researchers have identified a new family of methane-producing bacteria called Chistensenellaceae that are found in nearly everybody’s guts, but are more prevalent in the bellies of thin people.
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Victoria Macdonald
Is a diabetes cure really on the way?
Without a doubt, all this research is important. More than 400,000 people in the UK have type 1 diabetes – 29,000 of them are children.
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Alex Thomson
A paralysed man walks again
Today’s news of a breakthrough in the treatment of spinal cord injury is for all those suffering from paralysis – as well as those who say the news is always depressing.
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Iran’s Rouhani addresses the UN – in tweets
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani gives his view on how to tackle Islamic extremism in the Middle East – and tweets most of it as he does so.
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Victoria Macdonald
Hep C drug that can cure – but is it too expensive?
There are some phone calls which brighten up your day. I have just had one of those. It was from Nils Nordal and he was phoning from his hospital bed in the Royal Free, north London.
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Kylie Morris
US immigrants are more than just numbers
One young immigrant tells me here story – she went to school in her town one day, and wore the wrong colours. Two members of a gang approached her, and delivered a death threat.
