A particularly bad example of poor taste in drug advertising pointed out by one of the editors of the journal in which it ran:
The ad, for the Boehringer Ingelheim manufactured Asasantin Retard, is of a middle aged woman seen through the field of view of a sniper rifle. Her brain is targeted, it seems, to [...]
My friend who runs The Gruffalog has produced a cryptic crossword… They just give me a headache, but each to his own.
Warfarin is a drug that carries risks of bleeding and is also association with difficulties in compliance. Q Fever have run a satirical story about a fictional anti-coagulation clinic:
““My colleagues and I have developed a very successful algorithm for maintaining appropriate anticoagulation,” says Baff. “Nobody said life was easy. If you want us [...]
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has set-up a new section on it’s website concerned with herbal safety. A good idea given their popularity these days:
History Lesson: A brief history of Medicine:
2000 BC Here, take this root.
1000 AD That root is for a heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 AD That prayer [...]
Many drugs used in children are unlicenced and we have limited data from clinical trials. For that reason, it is important that reports of any adverse reactions to medicines in children should be reported. There is some evidence that doctors need some encouragement
The Health Care Blog
Although the Liberals have been accused of jumping on bandwagons and having dubious election tactics in order to court popularity they have a good policy on MMR vaccine. The Daily Telegraph reports on the fall in uptake of MMR vaccine, as I mentioned below, and quotes the Liberal Democrats health spokesman Dr Evan [...]
Think Tank (Front) Birmingham. More pictures.
If you interested in the subject of risk, go to the current BMJ. This week’s BMJ is a theme issue based around risk and had a variety of articles on the communication of risk and perceptions of risk. An interesting article by Gerg Gigerenzer, author of Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty:
The [...]