First meeting of Medicines Control Agency - The first annual meeting of the Medicines Control Agency questioned the policy of holding all review procedures of new drugs in secret and considering...

Social audit's charles medawar, the uk's drugs watchdog, pieces together new evidence demonstrating that the new, so-called safer antidepressants like prozac could be habit-forming. - Over the past 200 years, doctors have prescribed an almost uninterrupted succession of 'addictive' drugs, always in the belief they would not cause de...

It’s the environment: the cause of tourette’s syndrome may have been p - Tourette’s syndrome, which causes embarrassing nervous facial tics, has increased fourfold in the past 20 years. One study in Rochester, New York, fou...

It’s the environment: the cause of tourette syndrome may have been pi - Tourette syndrome which causes embarrassing nervous facial tics is a mystery to the medical profession Although incidence of the condition have...

Agency cracks open its doors - The Medicines Control Agency (MCA), the UK government body that licenses new drugs, opened its doors to the public for the first time recently but fai...

Kicking dirt at small children - If the European Union is the school bully when it comes to terrorising alternative medicine, the British Medicines Control Agency is his scrawny sidek...

March for freedom of choice - If you've been reading these pages, you've heard me ranting on about MLX 249, the proposed amendment to give the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) a broa...

The third way - The British government is about to give the Medicines Control Agency powers that are more sweeping than any other authority in the land, and we are al...