What Doctors Don't Tell YouData from an international review suggest that a wide range of antipsychotic drugs can result in heart muscle damage. ...
The lungs may be acting as a reservoir for antidepressants, causing toxic effects in the blood and brain, says a recent report from Japan. ...
It seems extraordinary that an epidemic can be triggered purely as the result of hysteria, but this phenomenon has occurred on lots of occasions in the past. Several have been recorded and analysed by psychiatrist Colin McEvedy, who passed away this...
TOO MANY DOCTORS miss the point
Prozac, dubbed "the happy drug" by some zealots, may need a new sobriquet soon when word gets out that it could cause sexual dysfunction in up to 34 per cent of users. ...
A major study examining two versions of the new haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccine, introduced this month in Britain, shows that they don't work as well as they should. ...
The Systematic Review of Water Fluoridation commissioned last summer by the Department of Health has reported at last (BMJ, 6 October 2000 and NHS CRD Report No 18). It had been hugely misrepresen ...
Q I have a hiatus hernia and my doctors tell me that I need to have an operation. The only other course of action is a lifetime of Zantac. - PS, London
In the clamour to get the new breast-cancer wonder drug Herceptin available on the UK’s National Health Service, everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that it is very dangerous. It causes life-threatening heart damage in 5 per cent of patients, and...
Besides Herceptin, doctors and the media proclaim that numerous breakthrough chemotherapy drugs are now winning the war on cancer. The statistics show a very different story. Here’s how the major new chemotherapy drugs fare.
