Centre To Test Drugs Wanted
(N.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, July 31. The pharmaceutical industry 4n Britain should establish a centre to screen dangerous drugs like thalidomide. the “Practitioner.” a monthly medical magazine, said today Reports of deformed births resulting from use of thalidomide. a tranquillising drug, had brought to a head the anxiety felt by many in medicine and pharmacy in recent years, the magazine said. “Too often during these last two decades have doctors prescribed new drugs without a full appreciation of what they could do.” it said. The pharmaceutical industry could make a most essential contribution by providing the funds for the setting up of a drug toxicity centre to receive from doctors reports of the toxic effects of drugs, the magazine said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29890, 2 August 1962, Page 16
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