Last week I noted that section 96(6) of the Medicines Act 1968 required marketing authorization holders to publish information about their medicinal products in data sheets, whose form and contents […]
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Richard Smith: The hegemony of “health people”
While the NHS is promised another £20 billion (which is still not enough, “health people” say), I listen every day on the radio to teachers, police, prison officers, social workers, […]
Richard Smith: Managing hypertension in low and middle income countries—the Sri Lanka story
A billion people in the world have hypertension, and without intervention it will be 1.5 billion by 2025. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that hypertension is the major global […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The Medicines Act 1968, Data Sheets, and Summaries of Product Characteristics
Last week, during my exploration of the Medicines Act 1968, I discussed its provisions in relation to the promotion of sales of medicinal products, and the idea of a data […]
Matt Morgan: Health is not the lack of disease
Do we need a new breed of doctor to concentrate on function rather than malfunction? […]
Giles Maskell: Time to put place based rivalry to rest
No one is by definition a better doctor because they work at a particular site […]
Kieran Walsh: E-learning—do directors of education need an upgrade?
E-learning in medical education has been around for twenty years. Some studies have shown it to be as effective as traditional forms of education—at least for selected learning outcomes. [1] […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The Medicines Act 1968 and advertising medicinal products
Continuing my exploration, during Clinical Pharmacology Month, of the Medicines Act 1968, I turn to Part VI, “Promotion of Sales of Medicinal Products” (§§92–97); i.e. advertising. The IndoEuropean root WER, […]
Joe Biden, 47th vice-president of the US, calls for global cooperation to defeat cancer
Famously if you are giving a speech what you say is less important than how you say it, which in turn is less important than who you are. So a […]
Peter Brindley: Talk is cheap, but healthcare is definitely not
There seems to be no end to our healthcare demands, but there does appear to be a limit to how much tax we will pay, says Peter Brindley […]