The fallout from Vioxx

The fallout from Vioxx.

What have we learnt from Vioxx?

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UK researchers digest the fallout from Brexit.

www.thelancet.com Vol 388 July 9, 2016 115 The president of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences professor Sir Robert Lechler was candid when it came to his view on the research implications of the UK referendum result: “I think this represents the biggest challenge to the UK’s research sector in living memory.” The referendum on June 23, in which voters took the momentous decision to leave the...

#513 - Fallout From the Peaceful Atom

It was 1953 --seven years after Hiroshima --when President Dwight Eisenhower announced plans for the "peaceful atom" so that "the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life."[1,pg.148] The shining star of this program was to be thousands of nuclear-powered electricity-generating plants, worldwide, making electricity "too cheap to meter."[1,p...

Merck's Actions Surrounding Vioxx

Abdul Moiz Khan The problems of the overwhelming amount of medical literature have been thoughtfully highlighted in the PLoS Medicine editorial “Drowning or Thirsting: The Extremes of Availability of Medical Information” [1]. It is of vital importance to medical professionals that they improve on their skills of sifting through the huge amounts of literature that are made available to them ever...