The Daily Telegraph reports on long-term consequences in some of the TGN1412 victims:
Last week Mr Day passed on a medical assessment by the immunologist Prof Richard Powell to his clients, who include Nav Modi, 24, from Forest Gate, east London, and three other men aged 19, 30 and 29.
Prof Powell wrote of patient A, the [...]
I’m quoted in The Pharmaceutical Journal in a discussion about the professional regulation of pharmacists. Currently The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain combines the role of a regulator (like the GMC) and a representative body. There is an obvious conflict of interest, here’s my take:
Anthony Cox, a former honorary auditor at the Society, believes [...]
The disastrous TGN 1412 clinical trial led to the publication of a report entitled: Expert Scientific Group on phase one clinical trials. It is a 357 page document in ten PDF sections, which I currently haven’t time to wade through. Here’s what the MHRA say about it:
Prof. Kent Woods, MHRA Chief Executive, said: “We welcome [...]
For the first time ever I’m going to blog a technical computery-type thingy.
Made me smile.
A Chinese woman has reportedly had a mole grafted on to her face to avoid being mistaken for her twin sister.
Xiao Ai, of Xiamen city, Fujian province, had the mole removed from her leg and transplanted on to her face.
She was sick of being mistaken for her twin Xiao Ping, reports the Southeastern Morning News.
Both [...]
Last year I was a co-contributor to a book chapter in the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. It has had rave reviews in the New England Journal of Medicine as well as the Journal of the American Medical Association – which is good given that the book costs $1,090.27. Those purchasing the book should [...]
“It’s only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that your realise how often they burst into flames.”
Harry Hill [ex-medic]
Some of you may have noticed the media coverage of the training of doctors in prescribing. I occassionally get involved in assessing medical undergraduates prescribing skills at Birmingham University who have some extremely committed and well-regarded clinical pharmacologists who make sure that prescribing and drug safety is taught. However, the debate about clinical pharmacology in [...]