Maryon StewartIf you forget what you are saying in midsentence, what you went into a room for, or where you put your car keys, you are not alone. It’s one of the commonest symptoms of menopause.
What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn a list of the most shameful aspects of modern medicine, psychiatry must come at the top of the heap. This is the discipline that has given us - in the name of ‘first-do-no-harm’ hippocratic medicine - electric shock treatment, the lobotomy...
Q:One of the side effects of prochlorperazine (Stemetil) is parkinsonism. Does the panel know of any instances where patients who have been prescribed Stemetil for a number of years in relatively ...
In order to understand why depression happens, it's necessary to understand a little about how the brain works. Neurotransmitters are natural substances that transmit messages between nerve cells ...
Q:How successful are some of the new therapies for Parkinson's disease? I've just heard that doctors are experimenting with transplanting fetal brain tissue in patients with Parkinson's. What are ...
Data from an international review suggest that a wide range of antipsychotic drugs can result in heart muscle damage. ...
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODIES? It’s all Greek to our medical watchdog
Acute dystonia, a form of muscle paralysis which can leave an individual in any number of sustained abnormal postures, is a common but overlooked side effect of antipsychotic and other drugs, acc ...
An advertisement for the anti Alzheimer's drug Aricept has been criticised for being misleading. The advertisement, which appeared in professional journals, suggested that the drug could help the ...
Women who take Prozac (fluoxetine) while pregnant are more than twice as likely to give birth to a baby with minor defects. ...
