On 1 January, following agitation by journalists, opposition politicians and medical experts alike, the UK government launched a nationwide influenza awareness campaign. As morbidity and mortality figures rose during December, especially for H1N1 swine flu, ministers abandoned their pleas that there was no need for such a campaign, which would normally have started three months earlier. Even wh...

a proposal to ban trade by Sweden and the US was defeated. The coral is harvested in the Mediterranean and elsewhere and turned into expensive jewellery in several Asian countries. The coral has no international protection, resulting in significant trade, according to the conservation group SeaWeb. Opposition to the coral trade ban was led by Japan, supported by coastal states, including Indone...

where oil from GM crops is often supplied to customers who are working to lower prices, and bulk packs are suitably labelled. " It was considered unlikely that relevant information regarding food production using such oils is provided to the final consumer, as required in EC legislation. Despite the potential public backlash, ministers believe it may now be the right time to consider the introd...

Administered a 31-item worry measure, based on criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed., rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 1987) for anxiety disorders, to referred children with anxiety disorders (n = 72) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n = 50), and to nonreferred, never psychiatrically ill controls (n = 55). Anxiety and ADHD grou...