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Dec 8, 2024 | 
sciencealert.com | Andrew Lee
A "mystery disease" recently struck the south-western corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing between 67 and 143 people over two weeks. The disease was reported to cause flu-like symptoms of fever, headache, cough and anaemia. An epidemiologist told Reuters that it was mainly women and children who were seriously affected by the disease. But little else is known about the disease so far.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
medrxiv.org | Evan Troendle |Andrew Lee |Marina I. Reyne |Danielle Allen
JWM and DFG are directors of BioSeer Ltd (NI701440), a UK company that has the potential to offer wastewater testing services.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
econotimes.com | Andrew Lee
MPs have recently voted to ban anyone in England born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, as part of the government’s plan to achieve a smoke-free generation.
Smoking is the single most important preventable cause of ill health and death globally. In England alone, around 64,000 people in England die each year from a such as lung cancer, stroke and heart attacks.
There’s also the economic impact of smoking.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Andrew Lee
MPs have recently voted to ban anyone in England born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, as part of the government's plan to achieve a smoke-free generation. Smoking is the single most important preventable cause of ill health and death globally. In England alone, around 64,000 people in England die each year from a such as lung cancer, stroke and heart attacks. There's also the economic impact of smoking.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Andrew Lee
MPs have recently voted to ban anyone in England born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, as part of the government’s plan to achieve a smoke-free generation. Smoking is the single most important preventable cause of ill health and death globally. In England alone, around 64,000 people in England die each year from a such as lung cancer, stroke and heart attacks. There’s also the economic impact of smoking.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
levellerconfidential.substack.com | Andrew Lee
A message from this week’s sponsor Somerset Rivers Authority:Somerset flooding. What should we do about it? At Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA), we’ve just published a draft strategy for the next 10 years, and we’re developing a Flood Action Plan. We’re keen to get your views, so we’ve set up a website at srastrategy.co.ukwhere you can comment on the strategy and share your flood concerns on a map. You can also sign up for online events.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
levellerconfidential.substack.com | Andrew Lee
Somerset Confidential® special SC 31Dear readers Today’s Somerset Confidential® is for our paying subscribers. We hope you find it interesting. If you’d like to get more material like this you can subscribe for it here:At Somerset Confidential®, we see our work as a public service reporting the news and providing much of our journalism free of charge. However we still have some bills to pay! And we would like to do more, indeed we need to do more.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
levellerconfidential.substack.com | Andrew Lee
A message from this week’s sponsor Somerset Rivers Authority:Somerset this week has been hit again by flooding. What should we do? At Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA), we’ve just published a draft strategy for the next 10 years, and we’re developing a Flood Action Plan. We’re keen to get your views, so we’ve set up a website at srastrategy.co.ukwhere you can comment on the strategy and share your flood concerns on a map. You can also sign up for online events.
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Feb 6, 2023 | 
capx.co | Andrew Lee
The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised to increase the UK’s GP numbers by 6,000 by 2024. That target will clearly not be met. In fact, the proportion of GPs working full time in England has fallen compared with last year, according to the latest figures from NHS Digital. There were 26,706 permanent qualified GPs working in England in December 2022, down from 27,064 in December 2021.
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Feb 6, 2023 | 
econotimes.com | Andrew Lee
The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised to increase the UK’s GP numbers by 6,000 by 2024. That target will clearly not be met. In fact, the proportion of GPs working full time in England has fallen compared with last year, according to the latest figures from NHS Digital.
There were 26,706 permanent qualified GPs working in England in December 2022, down from 27,064 in December 2021.
