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Herxheimer, Andrew

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Personal name headingHerxheimer, Andrew
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Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date1925-11-04
Death date2016-02-21
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
Field of activityClinical pharmacology Journalism, Medical
AffiliationLondon Hospital (Whitechapel, London, England)
Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen International Society of Drug Bulletins Cochrane Collaboration
Charing Cross Hospital. Medical School
Cochrane Centre
Profession or occupationClinical pharmacologists
Found inNausea and vomiting, 2000: t.p. (Andrew Herxheimer; MB FRCP; Cochrane Centre, Oxford)
Guardian WWW site, viewed Mar. 29, 2016 (Andrew Herxheimer, clinical pharmacologist, born 4 November 1925, Berlin; the family fled to Britain in 1938, when Andrew was 12; died 21 February 2016; began as a clinical pharmacology and therapeutics lecturer at the London hospital in 1960; in 1962 he entered the second phase of his career, founding the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, published by the Consumers' Association, and editing it for 30 years; founded the clinical pharmacology department at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands; chaired the International Society of Drug Bulletins from its foundation in 1986 until 1996; after national service he held junior hospital jobs before moving to the London hospital; eventually switched to Charing Cross medical school in London, remaining there until he retired in 1992; at that point the health service researcher Iain Chalmers invited him to join the Cochrane Centre in Oxford as a consultant and to help establish the Cochrane Collaboration the following year; an international, not-for-profit network of more than 30,000 people, the Cochrane Collaboration prepares and maintains reviews of the effects of medical treatments)