Tag: The Times
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Trail By Error: Agencies Respond to Coroner’s Report in Boothby O’Neill Inquest
The British government, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS England, and others have responded to Deborah Archer, the coroner in the case of 27-year-old Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who died in 2021 from complications of ME after three hospitalizations failed to halt her decline. At the same time, the Royal Devon University…
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The Times Fact-Checks BMJ on NICE Committee; My Letter to BMJ’s Fiona Godlee
It is not often that a major news organization fact-checks BMJ, a leading medical publisher, in real time. But that’s what happened last week when The Times pushed back against biased BMJ reporting about the committee charged by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) with developing a new clinical guidance for…