News Digest: 28 August

By Sarah Townsend, Third Sector Online, 28 August 2008

Third Sector's pick of today's top news stories. Protestors storm the offices of the Government's drug watchdog over access to kidney cancer treatment, and Age Concern speaks out over human rights for older in the NHS and signs a corporate fundraising deal.

Terminally ill cancer patients occupy drug adviser's HQ The government's drug advisory body faced renewed pressure yesterday over its decision to block treatments for advanced kidney cancer as dozens of patients, many terminally ill, briefly occupied its headquarters. More than 50 patients, relatives and supporters, some in wheelchairs, crammed into...

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