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15,000 signature petition delivered to Number 10 Downing Street
Veteran politician Tony Benn joined actors Mat Fraser and Carol Royle, plus Green MP Dr Caroline Lucas, to present a 15,000 signature petition to Number 10 Downing Street. The Safer Medicines patrons, alongside other MPs, including David Amess (Conservative), Dr Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat) and Grahame Morris (Labour), are calling for superior new tests based on human biology to be compared with the animal tests currently used to assess the safety of new medicines.
View the presentation here.
Open letter to David Cameron and Andrew Lansley published in The Lancet
Safer Medicines Trust joined forces with 21 senior scientists to call on the Prime Minister and Health Secretary to compare animal tests for drug safety with newer tests based on human biology. Our letter was published in the world's leading medical journal, The Lancet, here.
Sky News covered the story with an excellent report, available here and an interview with Safer Medicines Trust director Kathy Archibald here.
The Daily Mail also reported on the story, here.
