First of all, the NHS continues to make the headlines, today with news that Nick Clegg has some strong disagreements over changes to the NHS’s regulator.
Meanwhile, more bad news for smokers – the Telegraph reports that smoking while pregnant increases the risk of the child developing asthma because of structural changes being triggered in the DNA.
As we all know, Western civilisations are – as a whole – ageing, and a new report suggests that the cost of caring for the elderly could treble by 2050. But not only that – whereas in 1950 the over 80s constituted 1% of the population, by 2050 they will be 10% of the population. Read about the report from on the BBC site.
and finally, a report in the Telegraph says what we’d suspected for a while, health insurance online should eventually take over from offline.