Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma sets important challenges for pharmacy
June 4, 2013
I’ve just finished reading Ben Goldacre’s excellent “Bad Pharma” and want to recommend it to all our students, staff and friends. It’s a very well written book about the evidence (or lack of) on efficacy and safety of drugs. Ben makes a convincing case for changes in how we run clinical trials, publish our research …
Freshers, friends and ‘Phanta’
June 3, 2013
With exam results in, goodbyes said and packing done I was on my way to Nottingham. Everything but the kitchen sink was strategically packed into the car and the nervousness was tangible as we drove to Nottingham, well more specifically, to Rutland Hall. On hearing I’d got a place at halls I did the obligatory …
Fighting the flab
May 15, 2013
As if obesity wasn’t a big enough problem already, it seems that now it’s affecting drug discovery as well. As Mike Hann of GSK has pointed out1, the is a growing tendency for medicinal chemists working in pharmaceutical drug discovery to come up with ‘fatty’ molecules – ones that literally contain many of the same …
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