Please read this post and consider signing the attached petition. It may increase the safety of the medicines you are given in the future.
In the UK, Section 64 of the Medicines Act 1968 says, that if a pharmacist makes a single dispensing error they have automatically undertaken a criminal act. So why should you care [...]
This week is European Immunization Week, which exists to “boost awareness of the importance of vaccination and increase the success of immunization programmes nationally and throughout the Region.” Here is the Welsh Chief Medical Officer views on vaccination:
After providing clean water, air and food, vaccination is the most effective public health intervention for saving lives [...]
I recently linked to John Rentoul’s series of headlines in the form of a question to which the answer is no.
Here’s another. The Sunday Express asks:
IS THIS THE FACE OF MADDIE?
No.
And as if there wasn’t already sufficient evidence of the British newspaper industry acting like scum, the News of the World provide us with [...]
Do you turn from a scientist who publishes an important paper on cell membranes that is cited by thousands of other papers into a man standing in front of an “Expose the 9/11 Cover-Up” poster talking about vaccine conspiracies?
Here’s a paper in the The British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease I’ve just published with a colleague about prescribing errors in diabetes that may be of interest to some readers.
Prescribing errors in diabetes have the potential to cause serious adverse effects. Antidiabetic agents are a significant cause of admission to hospital. Prescribing errors [...]
Fans of Battlestar Galactica will be pleased to know that the Asssociation of Teachers and Lecturers are taking action to protect UK schools from a Cylon attack. Colin “Adama” Kinney, from Cookstown High School in Northern Ireland, is aware of the Cylon’s ability to hijack wireless networks.
‘Let’s stick to wired computers and other wired devices [...]
On Friday 17th April 2009 you could attend a one day course at Aston University on drug metabolism.
Drug metabolism exerts a powerful influence on drug action – from complete failure of a drug’s effectiveness to life-threatening toxicity. This course focuses on the aims, responses and processes of human drug biotransformation systems. As a result, it [...]
This is more common than you think, although superglue is the usual culprit.
Paula Griffin, 29, squirted the hazardous liquid into her right eye by mistake after waking up with blurred vision.
Her eye was glued shut for eight hours and was only prised open again when doctors cut off her lashes.
Miss Griffin was warned she could [...]
John Rentoul has been running an occasional series based on headlines to which the answer is “no”. These include:
He’s the outcast bishop who denies the Holocaust – yet has been welcomed back by the Pope. But are Bishop Williamson’s repugnant views the result of a festering grudge against Marks & Spencer?
No.
Is This Atlantis?
No.
And today’s
Is [...]