BRITISH health officials, battling a seasonal flu epidemic that has already killed 50 people, told doctors yesterday they should use stockpiled H1N1 pandemic shots to protect patients if they had no seasonal vaccines available.

The New Zealand company that operates the coal mine where 29 miners died in a series of explosions last month has been placed in receivership.

There is no evidence of a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism according to a new independent virus study published in the UK today.