Wellcome Press Cuttings

Date:
April - June 1986
Reference:
WF/M/PC/05/04/02
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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Description

5 collations of photocopied press cuttings:

- 15 April (press cuttings from the past two weeks)
Including cuttings relating to the Wellcome share price; Wellcome Foundation winning the first UK license to market the cancer drug interferon (as Wellferon); reports on the launch of a test case claiming that whooping cough vaccine left a boy with brain damage

- 7 May (press cuttings from the past two weeks)
Including cuttings on Wellcome interim results; reports on the Wellferon drug; the award of the 1986 Queen's Award for Technological Achievement being shared between Wellcome Research Laboratories and the University of Strathclyde

- 20 May (press cuttings from the past two weeks)
Including cuttings on Wellcome interim results; the award of the 1986 Queen's Award for Technological Achievement being shared between Wellcome Research Laboratories and the University of Strathclyde; the collapse of a test case claiming that whooping cough vaccine left a boy with brain damage

- 2 June (press cuttings from the past two weeks)
Including cuttings on the newly passed Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 and reposnses to the collapse of a test case claiming that whooping cough vaccine left a boy with brain damage

- 17 June (press cuttings from the past two weeks)
Including cuttings on the withdrawl of children's aspirin medicines amid fears of a link with Reye's syndrome

Publication/Creation

April - June 1986

Physical description

1 file

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