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A year of reading

Posted on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 by Anthony

At the start of 2018 I made a conscious choice to read more books and consume less social media. As has become increasingly clear over the past couple of years, social media is consuming the individuals that use it, rather than the other way round (the average time spent on social media globally per day…

Medicines Safety Week – Make a pledge, make a habit.

Posted on November 22, 2018November 22, 2018 by Anthony

It’s medicines safety week this week, and medicines continue to be an avoidable harm of modern healthcare. Modern pharmacovigilance stems from the birth defects arising from the use of thalidomide, but despite improvements in pharmacovigilance new issues arise with both new medicines and ancient medicines. Some issues with well established drugs can rumble on for years…

Rethinking multi-compartment compliance aids

Posted on October 14, 2018October 15, 2018 by Anthony

The use of a multi compartment compliance aid (MCA) or monitored dosage systems (MDS), as pictured above, is often seen as an easy way to deal with the sometimes complex problems of ensuring patients take their medicines. There is scant evidence of benefit, and they aren’t without harm. In one area of the UK it…

Leaving EMA

Posted on September 2, 2018September 4, 2018 by Anthony

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has begun to migrate to Amsterdam. The relationship the UK will have with EMA is up in the air, but already the changes are having an effect on the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) work. They are beginning to fail to win new contracts for and lose…

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Vaccine Dezinformatsiya

Posted on August 26, 2018August 29, 2018 by Anthony

Should you spend time arguing with anti-vaccine lobby on the internet? After all, someone is always wrong on the internet and duty calls. A paper analysing a retrospective set of 1.8 million tweets suggests caution is required.1  David Broniatowski and colleagues examined vaccine-related tweets in this sample, and compared how normal users posted vaccine messages…

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It’s not about the vaccines…

Posted on August 19, 2018August 20, 2018 by Anthony

Communicating the positive harm-benefit of vaccines is complex. Vaccination scares cause real harm. As one example, let’s take measles vaccination. Vaccination with measles occurs through the administration of MMR vaccine. Vaccination rates in many European states do not provide herd immunity against measles. Data from The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. This leads…

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  • A year of reading January 15, 2019
  • Medicines Safety Week – Make a pledge, make a habit. November 22, 2018
  • Rethinking multi-compartment compliance aids October 14, 2018
  • Leaving EMA September 2, 2018
  • Vaccine Dezinformatsiya August 26, 2018

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