Fenoterol and asthma deaths

1990 ◽  
Vol 28 (17) ◽  
pp. suppl1-suppl2
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Usual Form ◽  
Set Up

Our article outlining the dispute over fenoterol safety has provoked letters both of acclaim and criticism. The manufacturer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, correctly pointed out that we had in several places misattributed the work of independent groups to the New Zealand Medical Research Council and the Asthma Task Force, which it set up. We apologise for these errors, but rather than publish a correction in the usual form we decided it would be more helpful to reprint the whole article highlighting the parts which have changed. Boehringer also criticised our selection and interpretation of the evidence and our conclusion. Our article emphasised the difficulty interpreting the data and the debate over the whole issue is still continuing. Our conclusion remains as stated here: 'while doubts about fenoterol remain unresolved, it seems wise to avoid using it'.

scholarly journals Physiological and Psychological Responses to Stress in Neurotic Patients

1948 ◽  
Vol 94 (395) ◽  
pp. 392-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Jones
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
Special Unit ◽  
Effort Syndrome ◽  
Set Up

At the beginning of the war part of the Maudsley Hospital moved to Mill Hill School, and a neurosis centre of 550 beds was established. During the six years of war some 20,000 neurotic patients, both forces and civilian, were treated at this centre. Within the centre a special unit for the study of Forces patients with effort syndrome (E.S.) was set up. This unit was in existence from 1939 to 1945, and during this period 2,324 cases of E.S. were treated. The writer was associated with this unit throughout, working in association with a cardiologist (Paul Wood (1)), and with other psychiatrists (Lewis (2), Guttmann (3), Gillespie (4)). Much of the material brought together in this thesis has already been published (Jones (3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 38, 43)). During most of the war years the writer was in receipt of a Medical Research Council grant.

Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-88
Author(s):  
J. K. Wing
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Social Psychiatry ◽  
Scientific Programme ◽  
Clinical Factors ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Set Up

The Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit was set up at the Institute of Psychiatry in 1948 by Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis, who remained its honorary director until March 1965. The origins of the unit were described by Dr. Neil O'Connor in an introduction toStudies in Psychiatry(Shepherd and Davies, 1968). This book in honour of Professor Lewis contains six chapters by former unit members summarizing the scientific programme up to that date. A new unit, with the same name, was then set up at the Institute of Psychiatry under the directorship of Professor J. K. Wing, with the aim of investigating social and clinical factors which influence the development of chronic disablement in psychiatric patients and of devising and evaluating techniques of treatment and prevention.

Medical Research Council Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry, Sheffield

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-384
Author(s):  
F. A. Jenner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Metabolic Studies ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The Medical Research Council Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry was set up at Middle-wood Hospital, Sheffield, in 1967. It was to a considerable extent a continuation of the Medical Research Council Unit for the Chemical Pathology of Mental Disorders which had been associated with the Department of Physiology in the University of Birmingham under the direction of Professor I. E. Bush. The latter unit had in its turn largely corne from a group headed by Sir George Pickering at Oxford.

An experiment in biophysics

1951 ◽  
Vol 208 (1092) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
King's College ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
Set Up ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University

I am indebted to the Council of the Royal Society for this opportunity of describing the early biophysics developments at King’s College, for the inception and encouragement of which the Society has itself been so much responsible. At the end of the last war the Society was extremely active in supporting new research schemes in Universities for which the financial procedures normal to such institutions might not be appropriate. It had for some years been my intention to engage in biophysical research, and I submitted a scheme of work to the Society early in 1946, receiving much help and encouragement from Professor A. V. Hill and Sir Edward Salisbury. A Committee of the Society was set up under the chairmanship of Sir Edward Salisbury to consider the scheme. General approval was given a little later in the same year, but the biophysical nature of the programme prompted the Treasury to suggest that the Medical Research Council would be the appropriate body to administer the scheme I had in mind; the Medical Research Council gave its approval in March 1947 to the formation of a Biophysics Research Unit with myself as honorary director, and a Biophysics Committee with Sir Edward Salisbury as Chairman was also formed at this time. The former Secretary of the Medical Research Council, Sir Edward Mellanby, and his successor, Dr H. P. Himsworth, together with the headquarters staff, have been most helpful and considerate, and I cannot emphasize too strongly how encouraging this has been to us during the early stages of the Unit’s existence. The generous support of King’s College, of the University of London, and of the Rockefeller Foundation has enabled the work to go forward with greater impetus and on a bigger scale than would otherwise have been possible. The total number of scientists engaged on biophysical research at King’s College is at the present time 26, and the corresponding number of technicians 23.

Finnish Consequensus Development Conference on the Teratment of Schizophrenia

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ville Lehtien ◽  
Martin Panelius ◽  
Pekka Tienari
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Consensus Development ◽  
Set Up

Since 1982, the Medical Research Council of the Academy of Finland, together with other interested parties, has tried to develop systematically the evaluation research of medical technology. The broadly based working group set up by the Council is preparing a program dealing with this issue to promote research work and the training of researchers. The arrangement of consensus development conferences, held on various topics in many countries, is another means of reaching these goals. In Finland, the arrangement of such conferences has been the responsibility of the Medical Research Council.

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