I always find it surprising how news sometimes coagulates around issues? What do I mean, well one story on a subject leads the increased likelihood of another story in a similar subject area. Maybe it is just co-incidence, or maybe it is news editors trying to outdo each other on stories, who knows, and in any case, who cares? On a slightly different issue I am often surprised at what does and does not become a story.
Here’s a good example. Whilst all the furore was raging about the ramblings of the Archbishop (a man who has no control over Government policy) there was a not very widely quoted story about a Government Minister (Phil Woolas - a man with power) who wants Muslims to stop marrying their cousins..
“whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children].”
Has their been much debate about this? Not much…but then should there be…?
There was also a story I reported, that did not seem to pick up much coverage but then is also very closely aligned to these two stories - Multiple wives, multiple benefits
Anyway, the point of this post is to discuss two very important announcements that came out within hours of each other. The first is announcing the NHS rolling out a cure for Type 1 diabetes - the most difficult form of diabetes usually present at birth and not related to diet etc.
Pioneering 45-minute treatment for diabetes holds prospect of cure | Society | The Guardian
The second announcement concerns a very important breakthrough in the fight against prostate cancer. I was not aware, probably to my shame, that prostate cancer is now the third largest killing cancer. There are some 10,000 men who die each year.
See the Independent report on this.
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