Wednesday newspaper round-up: NHS, Ed Miliband, Ebola...
A drug worth £10m per patient will soon be available on the NHS after gaining approval, said The Times. The drug is called Eculizumab and will provide life-saving treatment for around 200 people a year with a rare kidney condition. The paper claimed that the drug will cost the NHS upwards of £82m each year.
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Ed Miliband could cost his party this year’s election, according to a former Labour cabinet minister. Miliband has promised to protect the NHS in a “pale imitation” of Neil Kinnock’s failed 1992 campaign that will prove a “fatal mistake”, the former health secretary Alan Milburn argued in The Times.
The Times wrote on Wednesday that a massive injection of foreign aid is needed by the three west African nations that have been ravaged by ebola, according to Oxfam. More than 8,000 people were killed during the outbreak, said the paper, and most of the victims were in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The World Bank also noted that £1bn has already been drained from those nations’ economies.
An underhand political group led by billionaire pro-Republican brothers Charles and David Koch will spend $889m during next year’s presidential election, according to The Times. The duo will raise the money from a pool of donors, the paper added, that share the Koch brothers’ political inclinations. They have frowned upon healthcare reforms, minimum wage and various other government regulatory changes in the past.
An independent bicycle store in north London has been put up for auction on eBay at a starting price of 99p, wrote The Evening Standard. Holloway Cycles has been owned by the same people for seven years who have been forced to close the shop after a sale fell through.
A 12-month-long bidding war over a £3.4bn property has been launched to transform London’s network of vacant underground stations into tourist hot-spots, penthouse apartments and new housing, according to The Telegraph. The move should cater to a growing population and boost the city’s economy.
Analysts have now claimed that the conflict in Syria and Iraq have overtaken the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan as the biggest jihad in modern times. They also said that the jihadist movement is splitting, according to The Times. More than 20,000 foreign fights have moved to the region, more than during any other war in a Muslim country since 1945.
An almost £300m mansion may soon be built from a row of houses opposite Hyde Park. John F Kennedy famously once lived on the block, which a family from Saudi Arabia has now purchased for £70m, according to the Evening Standard.