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ATLA 15 4-w51 1987 44 intervention with modern drugs is on the whole remarkably safe. He lists four barriers to progress in further reducing risk: confidentiality (in doctor patient relationships), misconceptions (e.g. that all drugs could ever be completely safe), litigation (good for lawyers, but not for drug-damaged patients), and premature publication (of possible problems with drugs-drug companies get sued for harming hundreds, but not investigative journalists who can destroy confidence in valuable drugs and thus harm thousands). W. Howe, M.D. Stanard & B.H. Woollen (ICI) emphasise the need for volunteer human studies, with the chemical industry workforce in mind, since "only tentative reliance can be placed on predictions of human response which depend exclusively on animal toxicology studies" -''the THE FUTURE OF PREDICTIVE ultimate assessment of actual risk in exposed individuals must depend on the absorption of a SAFETY EVALUATION Edited by Alastair N. Worden, Dennis V. Parke & chemical and the demonstration of the resultant response in man". They foresee the development of John Marks MTP Press, Lancaster, several new techniques for safely investigating Vol. I, x + 227 pp. £35.00 what happens in human beings. G. Teeling Smith (Office of Health Economics, ISBN 0-85200-873-2 London) then
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Published: Sep 1, 1987
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