[Comment] Offline: Statins—where is the leadership?

On Oct 21, a group of public health scientists and medical political leaders wrote to Sarah Wollaston, Chair of the UK House of Commons Health Select Committee, to call for an independent investigation into the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The letter's nine authors included Kailash Chand (Deputy Chair of the British Medical Association's Council), Lord Ian McColl, and Professor Simon Capewell. The charges were serious, and related to what they characterised as NICE's support for the “mass prescription of statins where enormous uncertainty exists about the nature and extent of statins [sic] side effects because of a systematic lack of transparency”.

Source: LANCET - November 1, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Richard Horton Tags: Comment Source Type: research