Aspirin: no surprise there, then
When it comes to drug safety, how safe is safe? Take, for instance, three beta-agonist bronchodilators that have been used by asthma sufferers. One, Serevent (salmeterol xinafoate) was first suspected of causing the deaths of patients back in 1994...
MALARIA DRUG: Join the queue
Drug companies have been accused of suppressing vital data showing that their new-generation atypical antipsychotics are killing around one in four elderly dementia patients. The startling discovery was made in nine separate studies that were...
Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate), the antiviral drug, seems to be the weapon of first choice against the avian flu. The American government has ordered 20 million doses of the drug, while the UK government has placed an order for 14.6 million doses...
Britain is one of six countries in the European Union (EU) to continue marketing the post-operative painkiller ketorolac (Toradol). ...
My husband, John, died last May after distressing and horrific reactions to medical drugs. ...
Drugs regulators are our caped crusaders. They stand on guard, ever vigilant, for any problems with prescription drugs, and then they swoop, without fear and favour, on our behalf. The miscreant is removed, and we can again sleep safely in our beds...
This is not the first time the government has rushed through a vaccination programme in response to a threatened epidemic. In 1976, the American government, warned by scientists that an epidemic ...
ONE PINT OF LAGER and a packet of statins