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Alternative medicine has an extraordinary number of remedies for dealing with those illnesses that come out in winter months.
The Hib vaccine, the vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis, may be linked to juvenile diabetes, according to new American research. ...
My six-and-a-half-year-old daughter has developed a persistent dry cough over the past six weeks. She has no phlegm, no cold and no other symptoms. She is usually a very healthy and active girl. I wonder if it is a reaction to going back to school...
THE FAR SIDE: OK, so prayer can work, but after the fact . . .?
Any of the inhaled steroids taken by asthmatic children could stunt their growth. ...
Several possible risks have emerged with fluconazole, marketed here by Pfizer as Diflucan, the once a day oral or injectable court of last resort anti candida drug. ...
The drugs regulators, those sentinels at the gate who ensure our safety from dangerous prescription drugs, can sometimes be slow to act. It is now 18 months since we predicted the imminent withdrawal of Arava (leflunomide),
When it comes to drug safety, how safe is safe? Take, for instance, three beta-agonist bronchodilators that have been used by asthma sufferers. One, Serevent (salmeterol xinafoate) was first suspected of causing the deaths of patients back in 1994...
