His timing was good, as Pfizer this April started a new regenerative-medicine unit devoted to therapies involving stem cells.
The Gilchrist Birthing Unit and complementary medicine service have moved to the centre from the site's former Gilchrist Building.
The hospital also has an award-winning tele-medicine unit which links medics in war zones with specialists at the hospital.
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Barry is the chief of the general medicine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.
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"Overall I'm very optimistic and I think this is a good first step in the direction of allowing some research to move forward, " said Dr. John McDonald, director of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
The unit's expertise would include communications, logistics, medicine and engineering.
The report by the council's own inspection unit catalogues a number of concerns at the home, including how unused medicine was not being returned to a pharmacy, but instead destroyed which is illegal.
The consultation focuses on five areas - the midwifery-led birthing unit, accident and emergency and out of hours, planned care, acute medicine and children's services.
"Timbuktu in the 14th to the 16th century was an important university city where many manuscripts referring to knowledge of astronomy, economy, religion, mathematics, physics, and medicine were produced, " said Lazare Eloundou, chief of the Africa unit for UNESCO's World Heritage Center.
"Pfizer has put its flag in the ground that there is future in regenerative medicine, " said Corey Goodman, president of the company's biotech unit.
The medicine, invented by Isis Pharmaceuticals, will be marketed by Genzyme, the rare-disease specialty unit of Sanofi, the French drug giant.
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