Tag: Sally Davis

• Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 06:02 UTC

  Major scandal in UK: program reveals fetal remains used to heat hospitals

  

  Thousands of babies who had died from abortion and miscarriage were being used to heat hospitals in Britain. An investigation has found that baby corpses go to the incinerator as clinical waste, aside from using the remains as fuel to keep British hospitals warm.

• Saturday, February 16th 2013 - 20:44 UTC

  Trawling for the next generation of antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean

  

  Researchers are embarking on an £8m project to discover new antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean. A team, led by scientists at Aberdeen University, is hunting for undiscovered chemicals among life that has evolved in deep sea trenches.Prof Marcel Jaspars said the team hoped to find “the next generation” of infection-fighting drugs.

• Friday, February 15th 2013 - 18:39 UTC

  A potentially harmful painkiller bute in the horsemeat chain scandal in the EU

  

  Horse carcasses containing the painkiller bute could have been entering the food chain in significant numbers for some time, the head of the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has admitted.