Guest guest Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I sure would like to get the minutes from that conference. There are some thousands of " psychiatric " side effects from absorbed/injested substances and other body problems. I can't wait until someone tells the psychiatrists........ RE: Adverse effects of medicines London conferenne Nov 4 Please forward to anyone, or any organisation that you think may be interested in this important meeting. Many thanks....millie London conference Thursday November 4th 2004 Adverse Psychiatric Effects of Medicines and Anaesthetics ...preventing avoidable harm Friends House 173 Euston Road, (opposite Euston Station) 9 am - 5 pm You are invited to join us and contribute to finding solutions. Leading academics, clinicians, professors and a coroner will be discussing the issues around the recognition and prevention of adverse drug reactions and the regulation and safety of medicines. Those concerned about important public health issues including suicide, violence and the increasing numbers of people harmed by their medicines, should not miss this conference. Drugs currently being prescribed and some being marketed direct to the public are not proven to be safe for everyone. There are few clinical trials to test the safety of already licensed drugs and many drugs remaining on the market are unsafe for some people. The conference will provide a forum for sharing knowledge and facilitate debate about ADR prevention, reporting, analysis and risk management. A rare opportunity for open communication between the industry, research analysts, health care professionals, pharmacists, regulators, policy makers & the public. Ø Up to 30% of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are neuropsychiatric Ø Depression, self-harm, aggression, psychosis, suicide, dementia may be ADRs & prevention is possible for these and other long tem iatrogenic (medication induced) disease Ø ADRs after anaesthetics are not researched or analysed Ø Adverse events & ADRs in NHS hospitals cost estimated £2 billion a year & contribute to thousands of deaths Speakers Dr Herxheimer Clinical Pharmacologist, Founder of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin Medawar Founder/director Social Audit; Specialist in Medicines Policy & Drug Safety Issues Prof. Saad Shakir Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) Altman USA Adverse Drug Reactions Statistics Analyst Leonard Gorodkin H.M. Coroner, City of Manchester Dr Dorothy Rowe Clinical Psychologist, author Dr Halliday Pharmacology and Therapeutics Sub Dean Basic Med. Science King's Col. London Steve Mott Datapharm director, ABPI drug data Dr Anita Holdcroft Reader in Anaesthesia & Hon. Consultant Anaesthetist Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Faculty of Medicine Imperial College, London Panel members and chairs Clow Prof. Psychophysiology, Univ. of Westminster & Stress Test co-presenter BBC 1 Seager psychologist, Dr Diane Samways, Dr Walter Loebl Venue Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 (Opposite Euston Station) Date Thursday 4th November 2004 Time 9.30am to 5.00pm (registration 9am) Delegate fees From £35 concessions £115 if funded Registration Aplication form to download on website www.april.org.uk Tel: EYAS Ltd +44 (0)1243 775 561 or email april@... PRESS ENQUIRIES TO millie@... or telephone: 01992 813111 Organiser APRIL a charity registered in England no 1072305, company limited by guarantee no 3641410 Suite 4, Auction Square, Market Place, Abridge, Essex RM4 1UA www.april.org.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I sure would like to get the minutes from that conference. There are some thousands of " psychiatric " side effects from absorbed/injested substances and other body problems. I can't wait until someone tells the psychiatrists........ RE: Adverse effects of medicines London conferenne Nov 4 Please forward to anyone, or any organisation that you think may be interested in this important meeting. Many thanks....millie London conference Thursday November 4th 2004 Adverse Psychiatric Effects of Medicines and Anaesthetics ...preventing avoidable harm Friends House 173 Euston Road, (opposite Euston Station) 9 am - 5 pm You are invited to join us and contribute to finding solutions. Leading academics, clinicians, professors and a coroner will be discussing the issues around the recognition and prevention of adverse drug reactions and the regulation and safety of medicines. Those concerned about important public health issues including suicide, violence and the increasing numbers of people harmed by their medicines, should not miss this conference. Drugs currently being prescribed and some being marketed direct to the public are not proven to be safe for everyone. There are few clinical trials to test the safety of already licensed drugs and many drugs remaining on the market are unsafe for some people. The conference will provide a forum for sharing knowledge and facilitate debate about ADR prevention, reporting, analysis and risk management. A rare opportunity for open communication between the industry, research analysts, health care professionals, pharmacists, regulators, policy makers & the public. Ø Up to 30% of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are neuropsychiatric Ø Depression, self-harm, aggression, psychosis, suicide, dementia may be ADRs & prevention is possible for these and other long tem iatrogenic (medication induced) disease Ø ADRs after anaesthetics are not researched or analysed Ø Adverse events & ADRs in NHS hospitals cost estimated £2 billion a year & contribute to thousands of deaths Speakers Dr Herxheimer Clinical Pharmacologist, Founder of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin Medawar Founder/director Social Audit; Specialist in Medicines Policy & Drug Safety Issues Prof. Saad Shakir Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) Altman USA Adverse Drug Reactions Statistics Analyst Leonard Gorodkin H.M. Coroner, City of Manchester Dr Dorothy Rowe Clinical Psychologist, author Dr Halliday Pharmacology and Therapeutics Sub Dean Basic Med. Science King's Col. London Steve Mott Datapharm director, ABPI drug data Dr Anita Holdcroft Reader in Anaesthesia & Hon. Consultant Anaesthetist Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Faculty of Medicine Imperial College, London Panel members and chairs Clow Prof. Psychophysiology, Univ. of Westminster & Stress Test co-presenter BBC 1 Seager psychologist, Dr Diane Samways, Dr Walter Loebl Venue Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 (Opposite Euston Station) Date Thursday 4th November 2004 Time 9.30am to 5.00pm (registration 9am) Delegate fees From £35 concessions £115 if funded Registration Aplication form to download on website www.april.org.uk Tel: EYAS Ltd +44 (0)1243 775 561 or email april@... PRESS ENQUIRIES TO millie@... or telephone: 01992 813111 Organiser APRIL a charity registered in England no 1072305, company limited by guarantee no 3641410 Suite 4, Auction Square, Market Place, Abridge, Essex RM4 1UA www.april.org.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I sure would like to get the minutes from that conference. There are some thousands of " psychiatric " side effects from absorbed/injested substances and other body problems. I can't wait until someone tells the psychiatrists........ RE: Adverse effects of medicines London conferenne Nov 4 Please forward to anyone, or any organisation that you think may be interested in this important meeting. Many thanks....millie London conference Thursday November 4th 2004 Adverse Psychiatric Effects of Medicines and Anaesthetics ...preventing avoidable harm Friends House 173 Euston Road, (opposite Euston Station) 9 am - 5 pm You are invited to join us and contribute to finding solutions. Leading academics, clinicians, professors and a coroner will be discussing the issues around the recognition and prevention of adverse drug reactions and the regulation and safety of medicines. Those concerned about important public health issues including suicide, violence and the increasing numbers of people harmed by their medicines, should not miss this conference. Drugs currently being prescribed and some being marketed direct to the public are not proven to be safe for everyone. There are few clinical trials to test the safety of already licensed drugs and many drugs remaining on the market are unsafe for some people. The conference will provide a forum for sharing knowledge and facilitate debate about ADR prevention, reporting, analysis and risk management. A rare opportunity for open communication between the industry, research analysts, health care professionals, pharmacists, regulators, policy makers & the public. Ø Up to 30% of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are neuropsychiatric Ø Depression, self-harm, aggression, psychosis, suicide, dementia may be ADRs & prevention is possible for these and other long tem iatrogenic (medication induced) disease Ø ADRs after anaesthetics are not researched or analysed Ø Adverse events & ADRs in NHS hospitals cost estimated £2 billion a year & contribute to thousands of deaths Speakers Dr Herxheimer Clinical Pharmacologist, Founder of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin Medawar Founder/director Social Audit; Specialist in Medicines Policy & Drug Safety Issues Prof. Saad Shakir Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) Altman USA Adverse Drug Reactions Statistics Analyst Leonard Gorodkin H.M. Coroner, City of Manchester Dr Dorothy Rowe Clinical Psychologist, author Dr Halliday Pharmacology and Therapeutics Sub Dean Basic Med. Science King's Col. London Steve Mott Datapharm director, ABPI drug data Dr Anita Holdcroft Reader in Anaesthesia & Hon. Consultant Anaesthetist Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Faculty of Medicine Imperial College, London Panel members and chairs Clow Prof. Psychophysiology, Univ. of Westminster & Stress Test co-presenter BBC 1 Seager psychologist, Dr Diane Samways, Dr Walter Loebl Venue Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 (Opposite Euston Station) Date Thursday 4th November 2004 Time 9.30am to 5.00pm (registration 9am) Delegate fees From £35 concessions £115 if funded Registration Aplication form to download on website www.april.org.uk Tel: EYAS Ltd +44 (0)1243 775 561 or email april@... PRESS ENQUIRIES TO millie@... or telephone: 01992 813111 Organiser APRIL a charity registered in England no 1072305, company limited by guarantee no 3641410 Suite 4, Auction Square, Market Place, Abridge, Essex RM4 1UA www.april.org.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I sure would like to get the minutes from that conference. There are some thousands of " psychiatric " side effects from absorbed/injested substances and other body problems. I can't wait until someone tells the psychiatrists........ RE: Adverse effects of medicines London conferenne Nov 4 Please forward to anyone, or any organisation that you think may be interested in this important meeting. Many thanks....millie London conference Thursday November 4th 2004 Adverse Psychiatric Effects of Medicines and Anaesthetics ...preventing avoidable harm Friends House 173 Euston Road, (opposite Euston Station) 9 am - 5 pm You are invited to join us and contribute to finding solutions. Leading academics, clinicians, professors and a coroner will be discussing the issues around the recognition and prevention of adverse drug reactions and the regulation and safety of medicines. Those concerned about important public health issues including suicide, violence and the increasing numbers of people harmed by their medicines, should not miss this conference. Drugs currently being prescribed and some being marketed direct to the public are not proven to be safe for everyone. There are few clinical trials to test the safety of already licensed drugs and many drugs remaining on the market are unsafe for some people. The conference will provide a forum for sharing knowledge and facilitate debate about ADR prevention, reporting, analysis and risk management. A rare opportunity for open communication between the industry, research analysts, health care professionals, pharmacists, regulators, policy makers & the public. Ø Up to 30% of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are neuropsychiatric Ø Depression, self-harm, aggression, psychosis, suicide, dementia may be ADRs & prevention is possible for these and other long tem iatrogenic (medication induced) disease Ø ADRs after anaesthetics are not researched or analysed Ø Adverse events & ADRs in NHS hospitals cost estimated £2 billion a year & contribute to thousands of deaths Speakers Dr Herxheimer Clinical Pharmacologist, Founder of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin Medawar Founder/director Social Audit; Specialist in Medicines Policy & Drug Safety Issues Prof. Saad Shakir Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) Altman USA Adverse Drug Reactions Statistics Analyst Leonard Gorodkin H.M. Coroner, City of Manchester Dr Dorothy Rowe Clinical Psychologist, author Dr Halliday Pharmacology and Therapeutics Sub Dean Basic Med. Science King's Col. London Steve Mott Datapharm director, ABPI drug data Dr Anita Holdcroft Reader in Anaesthesia & Hon. Consultant Anaesthetist Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Faculty of Medicine Imperial College, London Panel members and chairs Clow Prof. Psychophysiology, Univ. of Westminster & Stress Test co-presenter BBC 1 Seager psychologist, Dr Diane Samways, Dr Walter Loebl Venue Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 (Opposite Euston Station) Date Thursday 4th November 2004 Time 9.30am to 5.00pm (registration 9am) Delegate fees From £35 concessions £115 if funded Registration Aplication form to download on website www.april.org.uk Tel: EYAS Ltd +44 (0)1243 775 561 or email april@... PRESS ENQUIRIES TO millie@... or telephone: 01992 813111 Organiser APRIL a charity registered in England no 1072305, company limited by guarantee no 3641410 Suite 4, Auction Square, Market Place, Abridge, Essex RM4 1UA www.april.org.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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