This really is space junk: Russian space experts examine 200-kilo metal 'UFO dustbin lid' which fell from the sky in Siberia
Six foot metal fragment fell near remote village in Siberia
Does not appear to be from earthly missiles or rockets
Russian space experts say, 'The object is not related to space technology'
Under police guard as experts examine it

A former soldier who bravely took on penny-pinching NHS bosses in his fight to get a drug that could save his life has died of terminal cancer aged 37.

Wife Karen, 33, revealed how her husband was forced to lie to doctors to get hold of the life-prolonging treatment that had been denied to him because of a cruel postcode lottery.

This drug has been studied in a large randomised trial of 1401 patients receiving either chemotherapy with Avastin, or chemotherapy with placebo.

The trial isn’t perfect – no trial is, you can read the details online - but it gives the best estimate of the true benefit of this drug, and overall, it shows that Avastin extends survival from 19.9 months to 21.3 months, which is about 6 weeks. Some people might benefit more, some less. For some, Avastin might even shorten their life, and they would have been better off without it (and without its additional side effects, on top of their other chemotherapy). But overall, on average, when added to all the other treatments, Avastin extends survival from 19.9 months to 21.3 months. http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/in-pr ... anecdotes/

Rationing healthcare resources is a soul-destroying and unavoidable horror, in which some people who are dearly loved will always die, and this makes it an irresistible magnet for questionable behaviour from people who are happy to release themselves from the burden of being realistic about difficult decisions.

Journalists can exploit these impossible decisions for outrage, and the pleasure of leading a popular campaign, but so can politicians: the Conservatives in opposition even invented a £50m fund to pay for the drugs that will save your life, in a scheme that is no more realistic than Barbara Moss’s* unrepresentative anecdote. With drugs that cost £21,000 per person, your £50m will buy you precisely 2,381 patients on Avastin living an extra 6 weeks, and then it’s gone forever. http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/in-pr ... anecdotes/

He is 100% correct. Faux scientists, whom live off government grant money (academic welfare benefit), are trying to keep the myth/hoax alive. Al Gore is a phony and his fear mongering is based upon myth.
- Laurence of Pewsey, , Pewsey, WILTS UK, 3/7/2012 21:12

It has been shown by weather scientists that the gulf stream not performing as normal is the reason for the heat in USA and the dismal summer in UK. Al Gore has become a multi millionaire by being an eco warrior and I predict in some 10 years time we will have enough information to be able to destroy his "unacceptable truth"
- Colin, Wolverhampton, 3/7/2012 22:41

people believes are generally very strong and this amasing diskovery i feer will cause un rest on those who belief in other gods and religions. we have too push sience forward but have too also be very carefull that we dont end up in another world war

- Sue Previsor, Doncaster (HSE)

And will this stop world hunger and poverty? No i thought not..

- rsaviour, london,

Now after the billions spent on scientists' dreams - now they think they have found it, what will they do with it ? Experiment, and ruin the world ??? Isn't this really a massive ego trip for the 'brains' ????

- J U Stanopinion, Doun souf

If all the energy and money that went into this discovery was spent on coming up with the cure for cancer, I would be truly impressed.
- Mary, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

And there always has to be

I'm not convinced Sue has really got it.

Sue has been flagged up here before, always reads like an attempt to collect red arrows, hence the (HSE).