| LC control no. | nb 90841121 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Herxheimer, Andrew |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1925-11-04 |
| Death date | 2016-02-21 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Clinical pharmacology Journalism, Medical |
| Affiliation | London Hospital (Whitechapel, London, England) Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen International Society of Drug Bulletins Cochrane Collaboration Charing Cross Hospital. Medical School Cochrane Centre |
| Profession or occupation | Clinical pharmacologists |
| Found in | Nausea 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) |
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