Novartis has issued new warnings for its antiepilepsy drug Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) that highlight the drug’s serious skin-related side-effects such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). SJS is a hypersensitivity...
The so-called ‘atypical antipsychotic drugs’ have been hailed as a pharmaceutical breakthrough and have, by now, largely replaced the old guard of neuroleptics. However, a recent overview of these modern medicines questions the claim that this new...
About 50 cases of epileptic seizures caused by video games have been reported around the world. About two thirds of those were first attacks. ...
The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and DTP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccines increase the rate of seizure by more than three times, the most definitive research into the two jabs has disc ...
American doctors have found that melatonin the supplement used to help improve sleep patterns can cause seizures in children, and make attacks more frequent if the child already suffers from them. ...
British government researchers have discovered that the DTP (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis) and MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccines can increase risk of seizure five-fold. Their findings are nearl ...
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.
Clozaril (clozapine) has been seen as the last great hope for seriously schizophrenic patients who have not been helped by other antipsychotic drugs. Not only did patients show real improvements with Clozaril, they were free of the embarrassing...
The sudden stopping of drug therapy to epileptic children does not increase the risk of seizure. ...
In the last five years it has become virtual dogma that a low fat diet is a healthy diet. The same people who 20 years ago used to urge us to eat plenty of meat and cheese now encourage us toward ...
What Doctors Don't Tell You
