In an extract from his forthcoming new book (which can be ordered here) Mike Marqusee slams the drug companies exploiting his cancer to gouge the public purse. In recent months, I’ve been taking a medication called Revlimid, given as a “late therapy” for multiple myeloma. Since it looks like I may be Revlimid-dependent for a while, I decided […]
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Denying treatment to those most in need
Feb 19th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.The warnings that the Coalition Government’s NHS reforms would be bad for patients are sadly beginning to come to fruition. We have seen nursing job cuts, an A&E crisis, and hospital waiting times beginning to rise. There are terrible stories in the press of ambulances being delayed and police cars being used to transport people […]