Category Archives: Health policy

Patients who pay £1,000 for life-saving drugs online that would cost NHS £35,000: More and more are doing it – but doctors warn it’s a big risk

  Kim Crisell, 60, from Witham, Essex, was told he faced certain death He had been diagnosed liver disease three years ago, and looked online The best hope was to wait for a new wonder drug called Harvoni When Kim Crisell was told he faced certain death from recently diagnosed liver disease three years ago, […]

Conflicts of interest in medicine and science

The European Journal of Cardiology Published: 7 April 2012 Lois Rogers. Following the recent European Society of Cardiology initiative,1 Lois Rogers reports on this important topic Doctors, medical institutions, and governments themselves have been forced to recognize that conflicts of interest are beginning to shake public faith in the medical profession. Some of these conflicts have […]