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ENGLISH patients are denied a heart drug prescribed in Wales and Scotland, writes Lucy Johnston. But Welsh patients have to be sent to England for the treatment because Wales does not have its own centres for the condition, pulmonary arterial hypertension.
The drug, which has transformed the lives of people with the fatal disease, has been on the market in Europe and the US for three years. The NHS ruled this month it will not fund Selexipag to treat the condition which raises blood pressure in the vessels between the heart and lungs. Dr John Wort […]
Today, Duolingo’s Hindi language course for English speakers officially launched on its website. The course is not yet available on iOS or Android apps, but it will be making its way to these devices in the future. The course has been in development for over a year; Kanan Gupta is the lead creator. Hindi is […]
Nurseries and childminders in the U.K. are struggling to pay their staff the minimum wage, citing funding problems resulting from government policies. Under an initiative rolled out last autumn, working parents in England with 3- and 4-year-olds are entitled to 30 hours of fully funded child care per week. But a recent survey conducted by […]
One of the English fans that was filmed giving Nazi salutes and singing a Hitler song in a bar in the Russian city of Volgograd, the site of a major WWII battle, has been banned from attending games for five years by a UK court. British police and the Football Association launched a joint investigation […]
After receiving a letter signed by US President Donald Trump, a retired English teacher checked its grammar and posted her corrections online, earning both praise as “a hero” and scorn for being “sanctimonious and self-serving.” Yvonne Mason, an English teacher of 17 years who retired last year, has landed in the spotlight after she posted […]
Getty Images Wayne Rooney is in talks to make the jump from the English Premier League to D.C. United of the MLS this summer with a deal that would reportedly pay him nearly $ 21 million per year. The contract would undoubtedly help Rooney and his wife maintain their lavish lifestyle. Rooney may not have […]
Getty The 2018 English local election results suggest Labour is failing to make the sort of gains it needs to be on course to form a majority government. The antisemitism scandal has damaged the party in areas with large Jewish populations. “The Labour party should hang its head in shame,” one Labour councillor in Barnet […]
Reuters / Russell Cheyne Academics say government plans to replace farm subsidies after Brexit could mean that up to 25% of England’s least profitable farms could go bankrupt. Dr Ludivine Petetin said “up to one in four” farms in England could “disappear” after Brexit in comments originally reported by the Farmers Guardian. The EU’s Common […]
Johnny English is back, again, with Johnny English Strikes Again. Rowan Atkinson returns as the well-meaning but woefully inept secret agent for the third (!) Johnny English movie. The Johnny English Strikes Again trailer is below. I don’t have anything against the Johnny English series, but I have a bone to pick with a particular trailer trope on display here. […]
