Schizophrenia is now widely believed to be due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, and powerful psychoactive drugs are used to control it.
Tambocor (flecainide) is one of a group of antiarrhythmics called ‘class I agents’, or sodium-channel blockers. Class II agents are the beta-blockers, and class IV agents are calcium antagonists.
The 'kiss of life' may not be such a lifesaver after all, say researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle. ...
Just 18 months after the UK’s Department of Health declared that the slimming drug Reductil (sibutramine) was safe, fresh evidence from the USA suggests that they may need to think again.
British pharmaceutical company Kabi Pharmacia has voluntarily withdrawn its anti incontinence drug Micturin, after evidence has surfaced possibly linking it to eight deaths. ...