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Libel gag on talk of 'medical hurricane'
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Times of London
Posted: December 28th, 2009
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article69...
A healthcare firm is seeking to silence a Danish academic from expressing doubts about one of its products by using Englands draconian libel laws. Two years ago in a conference room in the Randolph hotel in Oxford, Henrik Thomsen ... one of Europes leading radiologists, revealed how patients treated at his hospital had subsequently contracted a rare and potentially fatal disease. Thomsen and other doctors at his Copenhagen University hospital were baffled as to why 20 kidney patients who had been given routine scans were afflicted by a disorder nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in which the skin gradually swells, thickens and tightens. Some sufferers were confined to wheelchairs. At least one died. There was no known cure. It was confirmed that all those who had fallen ill with NSF had been given the same drug in advance of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Omniscan was used to enhance the images produced by the scan. The product was sold around the world and was manufactured by GE Healthcare, a subsidiary of General Electric, one of the worlds largest corporations. Thomsen ... now refuses to speak anywhere in England on the possible risks of Omniscan. The reason is that he faces another kind of storm: GE Healthcare is suing him in the High Court for libel. GE has already racked up costs of more than 380,000 pursuing the respected academic. Thomsen will have to pay the firms costs if he loses the case.
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