What Doctors Don't Tell You...
Diflucan (fluconazole) was sold to doctors as the "elegant" way to deal with vaginal thrush (yeast infections). A single 150 mg pill would rid their patients of this common annoyance, without the ...
Relenza (zanamivir), Glaxo Wellcome's much maligned antiflu drug, has received another knock in the medical press. This time, studies show that the product is too difficult for elderly people to u ...
Reader's Corner
There are no real alternatives to lumbar puncture, and few guidelines as to who should and should not have this procedure. It is contraindicated in brain oedema or swelling
The new "wonder" antidepressants have been shown to promote cancer growth in some preliminary animal studies. ...
Sex is everything - even if it kills you, it seems.
Take, for example, the inexorable rise of Viagra (sildenafil), the male impotency drug from Pfizer.
With atrial fibrillation, a high pulse rate and elevated blood pressure, I’ve gone through at least seven different medications, prescribed by my GP, over the last two years. I’m 71 and could not tolerate any of them due to side-effects that I’d...
It's pretty unusual for any drug to be hailed as 'the people's champion', but that's the claim being made for lansoprazole, an anti ulcer treatment marketed in the UK as Zoton and in the US as Prevacid.
