Here’s an interesting report of a series of vaccine reactions:
A group of schoolchildren in Luton were taken to hospital after complaining that they felt unwell following an injection this morning (January 30).
Seven students from Year 10 at Icknield High School were taken to the Luton & Dunstable Hospital as they became ill immediately after receiving [...]
This is a slightly off the wall post, but this Telegraph story is slightly annoying me:
A microwave still going strong after more than 40 years and 150,000 meals is claimed to be the oldest still working in Britain.
The Panasonic oven dates back to the Sixties and has been used on a daily basis by [...]
The Chinese government are executing two individuals in the melamine milk scandal. The contaminated milk killed six babies. Many people’s instinctive reaction might be to welcome this punishment, but the punishment deflects attention away from the failure of the Chinese authorities to properly regulate industry. As I have written here, the unregulated capitalism in China [...]
Some years ago I worked with another pharmacist, whose husband was the son of a Russian dissident. The dissident’s name was Marina Voikhanskaya. She had left Soviet Russia after placing herself in danger by refusing to diagnose and treat political dissidents as mentally ill. After abuse from the KGB she managed to escape, highlight the [...]
lost in a moment from dennis wheatley on Vimeo.
Via David Thompson.
According to The Times, Sir Terry Pratchett is trying out an antidementia helmet:
The author Sir Terry Pratchett is testing an antidementia helmet, which it is claimed can slow down or even reverse Alzheimer’s disease. The helmet, invented by Gordon Dougal, a GP, directs intense bursts of light at a patient’s skull.
While I can’t be [...]
Deborah Layton and I have a brief article in The Pharmaceutical Journal this week on the subject of antispychotics and the evidence for the risk of stroke associated with their use.
Layton D, Cox A. Antipsychotics and stroke: the story to date. The Pharmaceutical Journal 2009; 282: 30
You have to register to read it.
Cox A. Involving patients in reporting adverse drug reactions should be welcomed. The Pharmaceutical Journal 2009; 282: 16-17
Patients are no longer the passive recipients of drug therapy instigated by medical professionals. There is increasing patient engagement in individual decisions about their own drug therapy, public discussions about the provision of high cost drugs in the [...]
Here’s a short film about ethical concerns in clinical trials in India produced by WEMOS which is worth watching:
