Arpinder Baryana

Parliament’s Magazine No.1545 • Volume 37 • 25 March 2016 INTERVIEW Jon Ashworth Labour’s road to recovery ZacGoldsmith The battle for London gets personal ALSO INSIDE Mark Prisk INTERVIEW Callum McCaig Andrea Leadsom Baroness Featherstone Economies of shale Craig Mackinlay 01 Cover.indd 1 23/03/2016 18:44:30 Dr Azra Raza award winning oncologist. “Our system for developing drugs for cancer is essentially broke… We have to stop studying mice because it is pointless and we have to start studying freshly obtained human cells” (TED TALK). is for 'Scandal of Poor Medical Research’ (British Medical Journal) The number of people diagnosed with chronic diseases such as Alzheimers & Cancer rises every year. The number of medicines invented has halved every 9 years since 1950 despite vastly increased funding (Eroom’s Law). is for Clinical Trials Continue to Fail 95% of experimental drugs that show promise during preclinical trials on animals fail in human clinical trials. According to the Medical Research Council ‘this low outcome is because early results in animal models do not translate into results in humans’ (Making Sense of Drug Safety Science). is for Invalidity Progressive medical scientists assert that the current drug development model is invalid. Dr Godlee, editor in chief British Medical Journal concludes ‘If research conducted on animals continues to be unable to reasonably predict what can be expected in humans, the public’s endorsement and funding of preclinical animal research seems misplaced’ (BMJ). is for Einstein’s definition of Insanity “Insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result”. Repeated experiments on animal species, proven to be unable to predict the human response, is insane. That this has continued for centuries and remains the basis for current mainstream medical research is INSANITY! Oncologist Dr Azra Raza “We cured myeloid leukemia in mice back in 1977 and in humans today we are using the same drugs with absolutely dreadful results”. is for No Mainstream scientists refuse to debate the scientific validity of the animal model. EDM 373 requires them to present their case in a moderated public debate which is why we need your support. is for Change Progressive medical scientists assert that cures will only be discovered when mainstream research abandons invalidated use of animals to model human diseases and adopts innovative human-relevant technologies that have a proven track record. For example Skimune, a skin-based model of the human immune response, would have prevented the disastrous Northwick Park clinical trials in 2006. is for EDM 373’s call for a Medical Research Enquiry The enquiry would explain why the current drug development model fails patients and why human-based medical research is the key to medical progress. 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In how sore your legs get and I can assure you that an his talk he suggested that on average it takes 14 times international ight the same day is not recommended! longer for a woman to run for of ce than a man – so in When I landed at JFK my legs and feet were very Canada they created the ‘Invite Her to Run’ campaign swollen but the excitement of the week ahead made it all to encourage great female community leaders to run as worth it. candidates, which has made a substantial change. He even quipped, in his usual tongue-in-cheek, way that Monday 14 March “men should count themselves lucky that I only decided I woke up ready for the week ahead – this was the rst to introduce a 50/50 Cabinet”. select committee trip to the Commission on the Status of Women, so we didn’t know what to expect. It was Thursday 17 March incredible to see thousands of passionate women from Met with members of the European Parliament’s across the globe truly determined to implement the Committee on Women Rights and Gender Equality Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. where we discussed a range of issues including refugees, I got to give the keynote address to the ‘Activating gender equality and, of course, VAT on sanitary Women’s Leadership as Key Driver to Achieving products. I am pleased that the PM has managed Sustainable Development’ event, organised by the to make real progress on this issue at the European Justina Mutale Foundation. That was a daunting Commission. but exciting experience as my rst speech to an As it was St Patrick’s Day, we stepped outside of the international audience, but I hope I got across conference to join in the festivities. New York sure does what fantastic work the Women & Equalities Select know how to put on a parade, and there was a lovely Committee is busy doing. festive atmosphere on the streets. I even got my hands on a pint of Guinness to celebrate. Tuesday 15 March Today we got to meet the retiring general secretary Friday 18 March of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon (I must admit, Today is the last day of the conference and we boarded I was a little star struck!) As a man at the conference, the ight home with a stronger resolve to hold the what he said really struck me: he stressed that the government’s feet to the re on the implementation of campaign for equality is not just for women, it is a job the Sustainable Development Goals.

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