A doctor has been banned by the General Medical Council after injecting her sister with an unlicensed anti-ageing drug which caused her to have a fatal allergic reaction.

Dr Yvonne Pambakian injected her sister, Yolanda Cox, with the insulin-based drug at her home in north London but she was soon fighting for breath and was rushed to hospital. A week later, following tests which showed that she had suffered major brain damage, her life support machine was turned off.

Though manslaughter charges against Pambakian were subsequently dropped, the GMC ruled that she had allowed her "unshakeable belief in the unlicensed drug to cloud her judgement" and that her "blinkered thinking" could put patients at risk in the future.

The drug, known as B-71, was developed by the former doctor's mother, Dr Arpi Matossian-Rogers, and was to be used for treating cancer, diabetes and anti-ageing. At the time when Pambakian gave the drug to her sister, she had not worked as a doctor for over three years, but had been employed as medical director at her mother's company, Amro Biotech PLC.

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