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6 unusual facts about Royal Free Hospital


Alternative names for chronic fatigue syndrome

The historically significant outbreak in 1955 at the Royal Free Hospital was responsible for the term benign myalgic encephalomyelitis; it has also been called Royal Free disease.

Autistic enterocolitis

Just before the retraction, criticism arose over the fact that the Royal Free Hospital had received £55,000 in August 1996 from lawyers preparing to sue MMR manufacturers for support of Dr. Wakefield's research.

When Wakefield and his colleagues first reported in 1998 a possible association between autistic regression, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and MMR vaccines in the Lancet, they evaluated a dozen children with pervasive developmental disorders, apparent developmental regression, and intestinal symptoms, referred to the Royal Free Hospital.

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

The journal's editor-in-chief is Dimitri P Mikhailidis (Royal Free Hospital).

Group B streptococcal infection

The ECM test is believed to be offered on a handful of UK NHS hospitals, including the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Princess Elizabeth (Guernsey) and Royal Free Hospital.

Michael Kijana Wamalwa

Just two months after the wedding, Wamalwa returned to the Royal Free Hospital for another check-up - leading to widespread speculation that his health was worse than doctors had been letting on.



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Autistic enterocolitis

In an April 2010 investigation into the origins of claims for "autistic enterocolitis", reporter Brian Deer revealed in the BMJ that the original pathology results on the children in the study (obtained from the Royal Free hospital) had been subjected to wholesale changes, from normal to abnormal, in the medical school.

Jenny Heathcote

After graduating from the Royal Free Hospital School of medicine in London in 1968, she trained with Dame Professor Sheila Sherlock on the transmission of Hepatitis B.