Our Lives in Whose Hands? The Lifecycle of an Experimental Biological Medicine—Hedley Rees
Please take a listen...
UK Column Interview:
Our Lives in Whose Hands? The Lifecycle of an Experimental Biological Medicine—Hedley Rees
UK Column account:
Discussion of this interview, and updates since it was recorded, were given at 6:26 onwards in the UK Column News episode of 25 January 2023.
The United Kingdom is deemed to have a prestigious life sciences history to be proud of. In the late eighteenth century, Edward Jenner developed the first ‘vaccine’ for smallpox. Ranked fourth in the Global Innovation Index, the UK is seen to play a vital role in global science endeavours and is marketed as a superpower in life sciences.
As such, many would be forgiven for thinking that His Majesty’s Government has its own population’s best interests as a priority in the engineering and marketing of medicines. They would be wrong. Without the central involvement of the UK Government, the British medicines regulator MHRA, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) et al., would the worldwide Covid agenda would hardly have been …