Vitamin D supplements are recommended for those people at risk of deficiency, including all pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five, and the elderly, but 74 per cent of parents know nothing about them and more than half of healthcare professionals are also unaware, the BBC said.
12/28/2011
— Filed under: Society
Tags: UK, Vitamin D
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The last decade has seen a sharp fall in the UK’s share of the global market in clinical trials losing out to China, Brazil and eastern Europe. But it looks like Scotland is bucking the trend and attracting big pharma back to Britain.
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Skilled migrants from outside Europe are to be banned from having a further 70,000 jobs, including as vets and orchestral musicians, under the latest revision of Britain’s shortage occupation list, published on Monday.
08/30/2011
— Filed under: Society
Tags: non-EU migrants, rules, UK
The number of people living in the UK rose by 409,000 last year — almost a third of the increase across all 27 EU countries, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office.
The rise in tuition fees and cuts to university places may be driving UK students to pursue higher education across the pond, application figures suggest.
Most victims of crime do not believe the police are doing a good job, research said today.
Some of the UK’s smallest businesses could benefit from simplified accounting rules after the EU agreed to cut red tape for so called ‘micro-entities’.
GEORGE Osborne’s brutal spending cuts have left Britain idling behind European rivals.
05/4/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: economy, GEORGE Osborne, UK
U.K. government bonds advanced and the pound dropped versus the euro as investors pared bets on monetary tightening from the Bank of England after data showed British factory orders deteriorated.
04/22/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Bank of England, UK
