Helen Jaques

Meeting the demand for kidney transplants is a big problem worldwide. In the UK, for example, only 18% of patients waiting on the kidney transplant list and 28% on kidney/pancreas transplant list received a transplant during 2008-09. Donations from living people only made up 37% of the total UK kidney transplant programme in the same [...]

Prime minister Gordon Brown has finally announced the UK general election, which will take place on 6 May 2010. The main political parties have all since gone into overdrive promoting their policies on the campaign trail, trying to guarantee votes for what looks set to be a very uncertain election. As well as pushing plans [...]