BLOOD PRESSURE: Check the equipment before you check the patient
Boron is a trace mineral which, until recently, was largely ignored by the scientific community. Nevertheless, it is known that boron is necessary for maintaining several body processes and that i ...
We have now reached the point where, on balance, well meaning doctors in general practice and highly trained, well equipped specialists working in hospitals do more harm than good. Through a mixt ...
Until recently, the only available method of helping to balance the chemistry of the brain was through a variety of drugs, which tend to dampen emotional and mental activity with undesirable side ...
Sporanox (generic name: itraconazole) is an antifungal that packs a punch. In the US, three cases of reversible hepatitis were discovered among 2,500 people taking part in the first trials, and an ...
Ever since benzodiazepines lost their favoured position as a safe treatment for insomnia and anxiety, the pharmaceutical industry has been frantically trying to fill the lucrative gap with a drug ...
In addition to suppressing CoQ10 and possibly causing CHF, the major side-effects of statins include muscle pain and weakness (myopathy), liver and kidney damage,
One of the drug industry's holy grails is to discover an effective treatment for HIV/AIDS, and they've spent billions in the quest. But researchers have stumbled on something that seems to be effective, and it's already in plentiful supply - the...
Lustral (sertraline), or Zoloft, as it’s sold in the US, is back in the news, but for all the wrong reasons. It is among the ‘gang of eight’ antidepressants named by the Food and Drug Administration,
Pharmaceutical company Sandoz has come up with a means of controlling the distribution and monitoring of an anti-psychotic drug. Under this system, called 'bundling', drug distribution and

