Giving all children a nasal spray to vaccinate against flu is a brilliant...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Influenza vaccine is to be offered to nine million children aged between two and 17. This will help them to avoid a nasty illness and will also reduce the spread of influenza to...
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DR ROBERT LEFEVER: The USA is generally a 'Can do' society. In the UK the response to any request is usually 'Not my problem - the government ought to do something'.
View ArticleYe Shiwen doping row: Rather than cry 'foul' let's recognise outstanding...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: I can understand the fury of athletes who are defeated by drug cheats but surely the initial response to any victory should be to give credit to the winner.
View ArticleThe Coalition Government is making our difficulties worse. Thatcher's ideas...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: The Chancellor has missed his chance. It's too late to do what is needed to be done.
View ArticleAlcoholism is a devastating disease and there should be state funding for...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: A recent report indicates that 77,000 people in the UK now receive state benefits because their addiction to alcohol or drugs results in them being unfit for work.
View ArticleThe suggestion that chemotherapy can undermine itself may cause anxiety. But...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Cancer cells are crafty. When doctors use chemotherapy to attack cancer cells, various other cells fight back. Doctors therefore have to stay one step ahead in this dance with death.
View ArticleThe perils and pitfalls of social media, and why Facebook may just secure...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Some psychologists and employers now believe that someone who does not have a page on Facebook, or on another social networking site, may be a misfit or even a psychopath.
View ArticleIt's odds-on that Facebook gambling will increase the cases of betting...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Just as 10% of drinkers consume 50% of the total amount of alcohol, it is the compulsive gamblers who mostly pay for the gaming industry - with our lives or the lives of those we...
View ArticleTeam GB should run the UK: they have shown that competition and cooperation...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Politicians and doctors tell us that sport is good for us. Indeed it is. It takes our minds off the trivialities of parliamentary debate and the self-serving incompetents who...
View ArticleWhile the world watched the Olympics, the real news was happening across the...
Romney introduces Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate during a campaign event at the retired battleship USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia
View ArticleOlympics 2012: Team GB athletes show why state money should never be...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: If any of our coaches or athletes had been incompetent or lazy, they would have had their funding withdrawn. This same principle should be adopted now for all state employees.
View ArticleThe Olympics gave people the 'feel good factor,' without going to doctors,...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Life may be simply awful, but we can still choose to be as happy as we can be. It's up to us.
View ArticleEngland's green and pleasant land is more lovely than ever
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: I think of Heathrow, Gatwick and all the other airports, choc-a-bloc with sweaty adults and screaming children, and I bless the fixation with sea, sun and sand that takes them all a...
View ArticleHappy or sad days are here again - by choice
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Internet trolls do not have the power to hurt unless we give it to them. Nobody can make anyone else happy or sad. Our feelings are determined by our own values.
View ArticleThe Coalition can see what it needs to do - but dodges it anyway. Now all Ed...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: David Cameron could see that the Nasty Party couldn't win. So he herded huskies and hugged hoodies, but was unconvincing. Meanwhile, Ed Milliband says nothing and does nothing. He...
View ArticleIf we don't halt health tourism, our whole economy will bleed to death
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Cracking down on health tourism doesn't make us callous. It means we are loyal to our own taxpayers, rather than surrogate mothers to the whole world.
View ArticleWelsh Health Executives are absolutely right to express concern over...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Health Executives in Wales say that up to 60 per cent of the beds in hospital A&E departments can be taken up by intoxicated patients. They have a cunning plan. Cameras will...
View ArticleCannabis is not an innocent drug. Teenage addicts risk significant brain...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: Chronic cannabis use negatively affects mood, memory and motivation. That is a fearful toll, far more crippling than the physical effects of many other substances.
View ArticleYes, statins work wonders. But I fear we're becoming a nation who'd rather...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: The evidence for statins is very powerful. They are cheap, and relatively safe in comparison with other medications. Yet I still feel uneasy about the notion of the blanket...
View ArticleTax the rich or the 'cohesion of Britain' will go up in flames: Nick Clegg...
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: By the 'cohesion of Britain', Mr Clegg must be referring to the possibility of a repeat of last summer's riots. But the Lib Dems are comfortable with protest because that is what...
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