What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) - ‘morning sickness’ - is common in early pregnancy. Thought to affect 70-85 per cent of pregnant women (Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2003; 4: CD000145), and often accompanied by tiredness and lethargy...
Avian flu (H5N1) is predicted to be the next pandemic, claiming up to 7.4 million lives, according to the World Health Organization. The virus was discovered around 50 years ago - but scientists reckon that it will cross over into humans within the...
Around 20 per cent of those taking the antibiotic ciprofloxacin to prevent anthrax infection will experience adverse reactions to the drug, say the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Infants given the antibiotic erythromycin may be at greater risk of developing pyloric stenosis narrowing of a band of muscle which then prevents partially digested food from entering the small in ...
SUFFER THE CHILDREN: Drugs that kill and harm the very young
Last month, we examined prescribed and herbal diuretics which can deplete your body of vital vitamins, minerals or other nutrients. This month, we continue with our list of drugs that have this ef ...
Gastrointestinal infection due to enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is the chief cause of a severe form of blood poisoning known as haemolytic uraemic syndrome in children. ...
THE DRUGS DON'T WORK, PART 4,961: This time they do nothing for bronc
Erythromycin treatment in infants, particularly those in the first two weeks of life, increases the risk of a gastrointestinal disorder called infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS).
Doctors still can't agree on whether antibiotics are an effective way of treating acute bronchitis. Worse, they can't even agree on what acute bronchitis is. ...
