Ralph Edwards: RARE EVENTS

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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.

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. 

Reveals the delicate balance and knife-edge decisions involved in making medicines as safe as they can be Presents a unique behind-the-scenes mix of science, biography and history populated by influential people Contains powerful lessons for those seeking to make global change

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Ian Hembrow

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‘To describe Ralph Edwards as a scientist, a doctor, a drug safety leader or an entrepreneur would be to undervalue the man. For he is all of these and more. This fascinating book reveals Ralph’s huge impact on the development and use of drugs, and how he built the Uppsala Monitoring Centre into the jewel in the crown of the World Health Organization’s Programme for International Drug Monitoring. It’s a colourful and compelling account of one man’s legacy delivered through his intelligence, determination, clarity of vision and an unfaltering passion for human health.’

Peter Arlett, Head of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology, European Medicines Agency

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