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Infected Blood Scandal: PM risks ending on 'wrong side of history'

Campaigners, including many who are personally infected and affected by infected blood, gather in Westminster, London, calling for compensation for victims to be authorised by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak,

Campaigners say the government works "at a snails pace" to compensate victims infected with HIV or hepatitis C.

Junior doctors to stage more strikes in England

Photo of a striking doctor in glasses holding a placard, which reads 'pay restoration for doctors'

The announcement by the British Medical Association comes despite a new offer of a pay rise.

Ministers lose infected blood vote after Tory MPs revolt

MPs were voting on a plan to set up a compensation scheme for infected blood scandal victims.

A farsighted approach to tackle nearsightedness

As humans age, our eyes adjust based on how we use them, growing or shortening to focus where needed, and we now know that blurred input to the eye while the eye is growing causes myopia. It is so specific that the eye grows exactly to compensate for the amount and the direction of blur. Researchers have built a high-frequency ultrasonography system to measure eye size and how quickly eyes grow to better understand myopia and its contributing factors.

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Infected Blood Scandal: PM risks ending on 'wrong side of history'

Junior doctors to stage more strikes in England

Ministers lose infected blood vote after Tory MPs revolt

A farsighted approach to tackle nearsightedness

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