I need a new radio for Christmas. Whilst listening to Dr. Sir Liam Donaldson tell the Today programme that parents should not offer their fifteen year old offspring alcohol, my pocket-radio had an altercation with a wall. The soon to be retiring chief medical officer said: “The more they get a taste for it, the more likely they are to be heavy drinking adults or binge drinkers later in child...

Young children will be the next group to be given priority in receiving the swine flu vaccine, says Sir Liam Donaldson, the UK's chief medical officer

• Health chief's warning as WHO declares pandemic • Minister says people should not be worried Several million cases of swine flu could develop this autumn in the UK, the chief medical officer warned today as the World Health Organisation declared the first global pandemic in more than 40 years. Sir Liam Donaldson said the present strategy of identifying and isolating every case, ha...

Swine flu 'is not a plague' Sir Liam Donaldson has said as he urged schoolchildren not to shun or bully fellow pupils who have contracted the virus.

• Advice will be reviewed if virus continues to spread • Over-50s might have some immunity to H1N1 strain Swine flu may be more infectious than so far appears in the UK and the current guidance on catching it may have to be changed, the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, warned today. The World Health Organisation concurred, saying that if unchecked, swine flu could affect almost...

The Chief Medical Officer needs to know when to keep his gob shut. To say something that can be trailed even by the BBC as It is too early to assume the swine flu outbreak is a mild infection just because no-one in the UK has died, England’s chief medical officer says. Sir Liam Donaldson warned against

The British government's chief medical officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, has sent an alert out to all UK hospitals advising them of the symptoms of swine flu, what protective clothing staff should wear and how to report cases. Two people have been admitted to hospital in Scotland as a precaution after returning from Mexico with flu-like symptoms, the Scottish health secretary, Nicola Stu...

As ambitions go, the orangutangs desire to be like us was fair enough. He had, after all reached the top, and he had, or at least so he belived had to stop. And that was bothering him. But the song wouldn't have worked quite so well if it had had a refrain thus, "I wanna you to be like meI wanna you to talk like meWalk like me, tooYou'll see it's true Someone like youCan learn to be...

On the day that chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson was recommending that the government establish a minimum price for alcohol (which would see the doubling of the price of many beers and spirits) LDV posed the question: Is it time to support a minimum price for alcohol? Here’s what you said: >> 31% (102 votes) -

Sir Liam Donaldson is the government's chief medical adviser. Recently, he's been arguing in favour of a new policy: a minimum price per unit of alcohol. That might get rid of the odd handful of dangerously cheap all-you-can-drink deals and promotions, but it'll also force sensible and moderate social drinkers up and down the country to pay more money. You can argue the toss as to w...