International breaks are always bad, events in the world have made it a horrific time, the bitching and arguing are epic on here at the moment. So this is a good news thread, whats been happening to you? Anyone been anywhere nice? Promotion at work? New Dad? There's got to be some good news.
My wife's bestfriend went into Hospital to have a tumour removed from her stomach and lower intestine. It's benign, she got the results back this afternoon - which is a massive relief. Long road to recovery but nevertheless damn fine news.
New lung cancer drug, the first which targets the mutation gene EGFR, approved in record time, by the FDA. Could well prove to be the biggest ever breakthrough in treating lung cancer patients. http://www.wsj.com/articles/astrazenecas-lung-cancer-drug-tagrisso-gets-fda-approval-1447441952.
I believe the price will be revealed later this week. I saw the price last week & I think it's cheap in comparison to other treatments. Obviously because of the quick development process costs have been greatly reduced. Drugs are expensive to develop & it's usually a long process involving a lot of investment.
On the morning of my birthday I got a brown envelope through the letterbox. It was from HMRC. I opened it up to find a cheque for £1400.00 for overpayed tax Howzat!!
Two of my American cousins have been over here for the past two weeks. Haven't seen one of them for ten years, so it's been great catching up with her.
