§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list those medical journals which are scanned by the Committee on Safety of Medicines and by his Department for reports on adverse reactions to medicines.
§ Mr. Mellor[holding answer 5 December 1988]: Officials of the Department monitor reports of adverse drug reactions in the published literature by regularly scanning over 200 medical and scientific journals as well as using secondary abstracting sources to monitor other international publications. Regular searches of published literature are also carried out for reports relating to specific drugs. The Department also receives reports of 130W adverse reactions in international scientific journals from pharmaceutical companies, from overseas regulatory authorities and from the World Health Organisation.
A wide range of sources of published information is available to the Committee on Safety of Medicines. It is not possible to produce a definitive list.
§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the members of the Committee on Safety of Medicines indicating(a) their professional background, (b) whether their appointments are full-time or part-time and (c) their remuneration in each case.
§ Mr. Mellor[pursuant to his reply, 28 November 1988, c. 149-50]: The entry for Professor M. J. S. Langman, BSc, MD, FRCP should read "—Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham."