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Sources of Information for Prescribing Doctors in Britain
9 January 1977
…voluntary and statutory controls on their sales promotion. Both the industry’s Code of Practice and the Government’s regulations under the 1968 Medicines Act are being considerably tightened in order to…
Health Care Research Expenditure
1 June 1978
…of specific new medicines. It is estimated that the industry as a whole currently allocates approximately 10 per cent of the value of its total home and foreign sales to…
Schizophrenia
1 April 1979
…modern psychotropic medicines in the field of mental health and the programme of ‘running down’ the traditional mental hospital system commenced at the beginning of the 1960s. It should be…
Leukaemia: Towards Control
6 January 1980
…most common type of childhood leukaemia there is now a roughly 80 per cent chance of long-term survival (five years plus) and probable cure following the use of anticancer medicines….
Adverse Reactions and the Community
1 November 1982
…the future. Historically, two events stand out in relation to adverse reactions to medicines. The first was the thalidomide tragedy in 1961, and the second was with practolol in the…
Coronary Heart Disease: the Scope for Prevention
1 August 1982
…potential for therapeutic intervention. Beta blocking drugs in conjunction with other medicines, now provide highly effective control of anginal pain in about three-quarters of patients. For more severe cases the…
Measuring the Social Benefits of Medicine
1 July 1983
…measurement are needed in the 1980s. Finally, it examines some aspects of the challenge presented by the new attempts to measure the social benefits of medicines. In covering this general…
Consumer Movement, Health, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
1 January 1983
…medicines is a slow and problematic process there is a sound reason for all those involved in the health sector, including medicine makers, to participate in efforts aimed at overcoming…
Second Pharmacological Revolution
1 July 1983
…continue to be, to foster a relationship which encourages the industry to provide a continuing flow of better and safer medicines for use in the National Health Service and which…