Ralph Edwards: Rare Events: The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines

Medical treatments designed to help people can also be harmful or fatal. Around 2.5 million people die...
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Author: Ian Hembrow
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Ralph Edwards: Rare Events: The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines by Hembrow, Ian

Ralph Edwards: Rare Events: The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines

$373.68

Ralph Edwards: Rare Events: The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines

$373.68
Author: Ian Hembrow
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Medical treatments designed to help people can also be harmful or fatal. Around 2.5 million people die this way each year. So if any kind of medicine makes someone unwell, they or their doctor should report it. Those reports, from nearly every country in the world, go to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) in Sweden.
As the Centre's first director, Professor Ivor Ralph Edwards transformed it from a tiny operation with limited horizons into an internationally acclaimed scientific organization at the heart of the World Health Organization's Programme for International Drug Monitoring. He was then succeeded by his wife, Dr Marie Lindquist.
This is the story of how a new science developed and a passionate and dedicated pursuit of worldwide medicines safety, with an unerring focus on the welfare of patients. The pioneering work of Ralph, Marie and their collaborators on every continent protected the lives of millions of people. It may yet improve the lives of billions more.


Author: Ian Hembrow
Publisher: Springer
Published: 01/21/2023
Pages: 473
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9783031149801

About the Author
Ian Hembrow is a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK. Since 2016, he has been involved in research and writing about global medicines safety (pharmacovigilance), especially the monitoring work carried out on behalf of the World Health Organization at the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) in Sweden. His 2018 book MAKING MEDICINES SAFER told the 40-year history of UMC, following which he was commissioned to write this account of the life and career of its founding director, Ralph Edwards.

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