Medicines are one of the best achievements of humankind when taken appropriately, they can be poisonous if not. Risk Minimisation aims to give the right medicine to the right patient with the right condition at the right dose at the right time with the right safeguards. Join us.

Lack of good palliative care in the UK is a concern about the proposed Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill. People may decide kill themselves because they do not burden their friends and relatives. They will wish to live if they have access to good palliative care. Wait.

The main very serious concern about the End of Life Bill is that terminally ill people kill themselves not because they want to but they feel that they are a burden on loved ones.Good palliative carer prevents this . Build good palliative care in the UK before you pass such Bill.

Best Festive Wishes and a Happy New Year 2025 to everyone 2025 will be the year when you hopefully will see more pharmacovigilance work from me as I will focus on working on pharmacovigilance without executive responsibilities. Warmest wishes Saad Saad Shakir

Who is Ellon Musk to interfere with democracies. Yes, he is a very bright innovator and businessman. But he has weird and nasty ideas. He must not be allowed to buy his way into the political systems of countries like the the UK. #Musk

Ellon Musk thinks that he can use his immense. wealth and influence to manipulate democratic systems to achieve his aims. Democracies must put him in his place.

Trump’s decision to withdraw US from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a big blow to the health of poor and weak people of the world. WHO has problems and it is not perfect. However, it is frequently the only source of support and guidance in low and middle income countries.

I was pleased that I spoke about multiple data sources in pharmacovigilance. Pharmacovigilance is moving away from near exclusive reliance on spontaneous reporting to using multiple data sources. Understanding real world data and is a now skill needed now for pharmacovigilance.

As the founder of our Introduction to Pharmacoepidemiology course, I was pleased to teach on it. The aim is to understand the principles, strengths and weaknesses of observational studies. Everyone in pharmacotherapeutics needs to understand studies using Real World Data (RWD)

Saad Shakir launched his consultancy. He provides consultancy&advice, training&education and will lead & work on projects to advance pharmacovigilance. Professor Saad Shakir Consultant - Pharmacovigilance & Pharmacoepidemiology [email protected] linkedin.com/posts/saad-sha…

I will attend the ISPE Conference in Washington August 22-26 for the first time as an independent consultant. Delighted to speak with you about the consultancy & advice that I offer. I will also be delighted to talk about our education & training courses. linkedin.com/posts/saad-sha…

The plenary session at ISPE 2025 meeting in Washington was about Pragmatic (Simple) trials. These trials benefit from both worlds. Patients are randomised to balance baseline bias, but no other requirement or measurements are done. linkedin.com/posts/saad-sha…