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.
Exposure to bright light is, according to convention, an important risk factor for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and those at risk are advised to reduce their exposure to light wherever possible.
The flu vaccine can cause pulmonary complications and exacerbate asthma, according to new research. ...
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Many in the scientific community wonder whether this vaccine will increase other forms of meningitis. A a great deal of evidence shows that vaccines do cause viral or bacterial populations to shif ...
India is pressing for a ban on the sale and advertising of fluoridated toothpastes to combat widespread fluorosis, caused by excess fluoride, affecting some 25 million people in 13 states. ...
One of the campaign platforms quietly on the agenda in the heated London mayorial campaign may be fluoride. ...
Clever people, those City and Wall St folks. The share price of drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) fell 4 per cent in just one day’s trading this week after the US drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), issued a long-overdue warning...
Fluoxetine under the brand name Prozac was introduced by Eli Lilly in 1987 as a safer kind of antidepressant. Experience, however, suggests that far from being safer, Prozac may be highly dangero ...