Helen Grant was a pugnacious fighter when it came to taking on the government and the boxing fraternity. She encountered opposition from both when she tried to warn of the dangers of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE, crossing over to humans from animals, and of the long-term damage caused to the brain by boxing.
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Olympics influx will create 'extreme risk' of pandemic
Monday 02 April 2012
The millions of tourists coming to London for the Olympics will place Britain at extreme risk of a deadly flu pandemic, according to research being released today.
Swine flu jab linked to narcolepsy
Thursday 29 March 2012
Swine flu vaccine may have been responsible for a sudden increase in cases of narcolepsy among schoolchildren in Finland, a study has found.
Leading article: Too soon to throw away the Lemsip
Saturday 18 February 2012
It might seem hard to credit, given the various winter bugs that have laid many of us low over the past few weeks. But – the vagaries of anecdotal evidence aside – statistics for the whole country show that seasonal flu is at its lowest recorded level.
No way of stopping leak of deadly new flu, says terror chief
Wednesday 08 February 2012
US biosecurity board expert warns against details of H5N1 bird flu getting into wrong hands
Killer flu doctors: US censorship is a danger to science
Monday 16 January 2012
Dutch lab that created deadly bird flu virus attacks America for redacting its research.
Bird-flu victim 'had no direct contact with poultry'
Sunday 01 January 2012
Alarm in China after bus driver dies, and, in nearby Hong Kong, 19,000 chickens have been slaughtered
Chinese bus driver dies of bird flu
Saturday 31 December 2011
A Chinese bus driver who tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus died in a city bordering Hong Kong today, health officials said.
Too late to contain killer flu science, say experts
Thursday 22 December 2011
US government's hopes of suppressing details of controversial research may be doomed, say scientists
Hong Kong slaughters 17,000 chickens in new bird flu scare
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Hong Kong health authorities are slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens at a market after a chicken carcass there was found to be infected with bird flu.
US tells scientists to censor flu research
Wednesday 21 December 2011
The United States Government has taken the unprecedented step of asking scientists to censor key parts of their work describing how they managed to mutate the H5N1 bird flu virus into a strain that could be highly infectious and deadly to humans.
Steve Connor: The quest for knowledge can be a dangerous thing
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Knowledge may be pure, but its application can be misused for for the detriment of humanity
Have you smelled any good films lately?
Monday 11 July 2011
Giles Brody braces his nostrils for the next generation of scratch'n'sniff movies, starting with Spy Kids 4D
Swine flu mother dies after coma
Wednesday 11 May 2011
A young woman with swine flu who was put in a coma to save her unborn child has died.
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