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Rape crisis centre run by trans woman 'hid sex of its counsellors'

Rape crisis centre run by trans woman 'hid sex of its counsellors'
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Captured by design: the drug industry and UK healthcare

A broken system must be fixed in the public interest

The UK drug industry has much to be proud of, but the interests of industry, patients, and a cost effective NHS are not always aligned—and may be fundamentally opposed. Almost 20 years ago, the UK parliamentary health select committee’s report on The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry was damning.1 “The regulatory system, the medical profession and government,” concluded the committee, “have all failed to ensure that industry’s activities are more clearly allied to the interests of patients and the NHS.”

Instead of triggering an improvement, the past two decades deliberately delivered less caution and more industry involvement. Industry’s interests are increasingly favoured over evidence based decision making, risking sustainable and safe patient care and making healthcare costs hard to control. The landmark health select committee verdict is banished from memory amid the propaganda of drug innovation, accelerating access to new medicines, and “taking back control” with Brexit.

Robust regulation matters because the benefits of new drugs are often overstated early on, and as more data emerge, the upside tends to become less clear and harms more apparent. The recent example of anti-amyloid medications for Alzheimer’s disease is a good illustration of overstated benefits, understated harms, weak regulation, and industry influence.2 Our understanding of these dynamics dates back over a quarter of a century.34

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Investigative report reveals growing delays in complaint processing times against drug companies

Processing times for complaints against drug companies suspected of having breached their industry code of practice have more than tripled in a nearly two-decade period, an investigation by The BMJ has found.

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BMJ Exposes Massive Complaint Delays Against UK Drug Firms

BMJ Exposes Massive Complaint Delays Against UK Drug Firms
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<p>Processing times for complaints against drug companies suspected of having breached their industry code of practice have more than tripled in a nearly two-decade period, an investigation by <em><strong>The BMJ</strong></em> has found.</p>

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Huge delays in dealing with complaints against UK drug companies revealed

Huge delays in dealing with complaints against UK drug companies revealed
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Delays in dealing with complaints against drug companies are growing, BMJ finds

A major backlog has developed in handling complaints over drug companies’ marketing practices in the UK. Hristio Boytchev , Shai Mulinari , and Piotr Ozieranski report

Processing times for complaints against drug companies suspected of having breached the UK industry’s code of practice governing the promotion of pharmaceuticals have more than tripled in nearly two decades, an investigation by The BMJ has found. Delays mean that any problematic practices highlighted in complaints can continue for an average of eight months—and in many cases for more than a year.

To tackle the backlog, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has now raised the fees charged to companies in relation to these complaints by more than 40%.

Complaints against ABPI members and non-members that have ratified the ABPI’s code of practice are dealt with by the arm’s length body the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA). In the most severe cases the ABPI can suspend members. For example, the Danish drug giant Novo Nordisk is currently suspended from the ABPI until 2025 for sponsoring weight loss programmes that promoted its products.

The BMJ ’s analysis of PMCPA data shows that the average processing time of a complaint more than tripled between 2004 and 2021, sending the time for an average complaint to be resolved from less than three months (11.8 weeks) to more than 8.5 months (38.4 weeks).

For cases that were subject to appeal, the duration more than doubled from under five months (20.4 weeks) to …

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The best version of you—says who?

“The best version of you”; “The confidence you deserve”; “Age refined”; “Fight the signs of ageing”—I challenge you to go on social media or open a glossy magazine and avoid similar exhortations, which are usually selling something.

This isn’t about clothes, haircuts, or nail varnish but about cosmetic medicine. It used to be a medical fringe activity, the stuff of rent-by-the-hour clinics in Harley Street. Now these messages are mainstream, coming from GPs and dentists who do some NHS clinics mixed with some private aesthetics. The result is numerous private clinics, operated by healthcare professionals. The outcome: wouldn’t a bit of filler, botox, or non-surgical enhancement, with some pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo-ology, suit nicely?

I despair for the generation to whom this …

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The original empathy machine: five books to illuminate the patient experience

To be alive, writes Susan Sontag, is to hold “dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.”1 Even those of us fortunate enough to enjoy good health will, sooner or later, be obliged to spend some time in “that other place.”1 Healthcare professionals, who bear witness to the vulnerability of body and mind, know this inevitability perhaps better than anyone.

Many innovative ideas exist for helping medical students understand what it means to reside “in the kingdom of the sick,” from an age simulation suit that allows its wearer to experience the changes in mobility associated with ageing to virtual reality consultations.2 In the push to develop novel ways to foster empathy, however, the novel itself is, in fact, overlooked. The general practitioner and author Gavin Francis describes how books have “nudged [him] towards a more intimate understanding of those way stations of life [he’ll] never undergo.”3 Fiction and memoir allow us to know individuals both pre-disease and post-disease, to witness their conversations with family, to appreciate the ways in which sickness impacts their lives. “Reading tells us about other lives that we didn’t even know to consider,” writes the GP Margaret McCartney; not just about other lives, but about the other parts of lives we do not see.4

Before starting medical school, I worked in publishing, at a literary agency where my job involved reviewing submissions sent in by hopeful authors. In the wake of …

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Glasses that read to the blind, an ankle tag that tells you how to work and even an app that turns your phone into a urine test kit... ETHAN ENNALS tests some of the latest health tech in Las Vegas that is heading this way

The Mail on Sunday's Ethan Ennals travelled to Las Vegas to the CES Convention which hosts one of the world's most influential technology shows, highlighting the latest gadgets.

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