The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Regulatory Reform and Remedies by Sonia Macleod

“…In response to their tireless campaigning, the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review was commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in 2018. The review, chaired by Baroness Cumberlege, found a catalogue of institutional, systems and structural failures within both the medical establishment and healthcare system more broadly. …”
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Preserving women’s reproductive autonomy while promoting the rights of people with disabilities?: the case of Heidi Crowter and Maire Lea-Wilson in the light of NIPT debates in Eng... by Perrot, A, Horn, R

“…Crowter and Lea-Wilson, with the support of the disability rights campaign, ‘Don’t Screen Us Out’, have been taking legal action against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (the UK Government) for a review of the 1967 Abortion Act: the removal of section 1(1)(d) making termination of pregnancy lawful for ‘severe’ fetal indications detected after 24 weeks' gestation. …”

Don’t bring COVID home for Christmas - analysing emerging themes during COVID-19 through lenses of care homes and universities in Finland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Swed... by Alan White, Frances Hines

“…Background: In autumn of 2020, the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care pleaded with young people to 'not kill your gran' when returning home, after he confirmed the surge in coronavirus cases at that time was associated with students away from home for the first time. …”
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Autologous stem cell transplantation with low-dose cyclophosphamide to improve mucosal healing in adults with refractory Crohn’s disease: the ASTIClite RCT by James O Lindsay, Daniel Hind, Lizzie Swaby, Hannah Berntsson, Mike Bradburn, Uday Bannur C, Jennifer Byrne, Christopher Clarke, Lauren Desoysa, Shahida Din, Richard Emsley, Gemma A Foulds, John Gribben, Christopher Hawkey, Peter M Irving, Peter Johnson, Majid Kazmi, Ellen Lee, Amanda Loban, Alan Lobo, Yashwant Mahida, Gordon Moran, Diana Papaioannou, Miles Parkes, Andrew Peniket, A Graham Pockley, Jack Satsangi, Sreedhar Subramanian, Simon Travis, Emily Turton, Ben Uttenthal, Sergio Rutella, John A Snowden

“…Snowden JA, Hawkey C, Hind D, Swaby L, Mellor K, Emsley R, et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work was produced by Lindsay et al. under the terms of a commissioning contract issued by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. This is an Open Access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. …”
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