{"id":810,"date":"2014-11-03T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-11-03T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:32:26","slug":"medical-innovation-bill-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Medical innovation bill row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_811\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/018027428_40100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-811\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/018027428_40100-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Ian Hampson\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/018027428_40100-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/018027428_40100.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Ian Hampson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the fight to stop Ebola intensifies, the British government has given its backing to proposed new legislation aimed at making it easier to treat patients with unlicensed medication. The Medical Innovation Bill would protect doctors from litigation, which supporters say could lead to far more innovation and speed up the discovery of new treatments of diseases like cancer \u2014 and Ebola. But the bill is also highly controversial. Hear my report for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2617429-the-saatchi-bill-good-or-bad\/embed\/v3?eid=AQAAAO2sV1RV8CcA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; min-width:320px; max-width:700px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2617429-the-saatchi-bill-good-or-bad\">listen to \u2018The Saatchi Bill &#8211; good or bad?\u2019 on audioBoom<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the fight to stop Ebola intensifies, the British government has given its backing to proposed new legislation aimed at making it easier to treat patients with unlicensed medication. The Medical Innovation Bill would protect doctors from litigation, which supporters say could lead to far more innovation and speed up the discovery of new treatments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}