Wakefield was paid to undermine MMR vaccine.
ANDREW WAKEFIELD, the former surgeon whose campaign linking the MMR vaccine with autism caused a collapse in immunisation rates, was paid more than £400,000 by lawyers trying to prove that the vaccine was unsafe.
The payments, unearthed by The Sunday Times, were part of £3.4m distributed from the legal aid [...]
At the New York Times technology blog a question is posed:
“Imagine a plane is sitting on a massive conveyor belt, as wide and as long as a runway. The conveyer belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels, moving in the opposite direction. Can the plane take off?”
By comment 711, there are [...]
A Libyan court has condemned to death, again, a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses, who have been accused of deliberately infecting children with HIV at a hospital. [Telegraph, BBC, Guardian]
Detained for over six years, the medical staff have been tortured, and accused of acting on the orders of a foreign intelligence agency.
Another Bulgarian defendant, [...]
I have been arguing that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain should split its regulatory and representative roles for six years. I’m quoted in The Pharmaceutical Journal this week, since it appears that such a split is inevitable.
Anthony Cox, secretary of the Birmingham branch of the Society, believes that the independent review should [...]
The West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reactions has published its latest bulletin. Topics include
Pisa syndrome: an antipsychotic dystonia
Recent changes to the Yellow Card scheme
Sharing our expertise
If you make one report this year…
Aid on NSAIDs
Lamotrigine and birth defects
Combining antithrombotics: a bleed may follow
Dr Rachel Casiday and I have a commentary piece in the journal Drug Safety this month. In it, we argue that greater parental awareness of the safety systems used to monitor vaccine safety would reduce concerns about vaccines. Here’s the abstract:
Public trust in childhood vaccines is crucial to achieving adequate immunisation coverage to ensure population-level [...]
This site will not be updated until late January – apart from occasional professional publications.
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Here’s a short video of a large electronic white board, which you can interact with at Cadbury’s World. Excuse the entirely predictable music.
The British Homeopathic Association have an article about the use of chocolate in homeopathic medicine in their Winter 2001 Health and Homeopathy magazine. It’s actually an interesting article, since it explains how the “proving” of chocolate was undertaken. The homeopathic The Law of Similars says that like shall be cured by like, so a [...]