What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe Alzheimer’s drug Reminyl (galantamine hydrobromide) could prove fatal to patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to Ortho-McNeil Neurologics, the company that makes the drug. The warning was issued to healthcare professionals...
It’s been just a few short months since Avastin (bevacizumab) was being hailed as the great new breakthrough drug for cancer therapy. It is the first drug designed to stop angiogenesis, the development of new blood vessels to carry vital nutrients...
A recent report further cripples the last vestiges of support for hormone replacement therapy as a must-have treatment for menopause.
Obese people who take an appetite suppressant for more than three months increase by 30 times their chances of developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a usually fatal condition affecting the ar ...
Risperdal (risperidone) is the most prescribed antipsychotic in the US and, with worldwide sales of $2.1bn, is Johnson & Johnson’s second most profitable drug.
My darling daughter Caroline, aged 14, started having health problems in October 1991 (numbness in face, speech affected, loss of sight, tingling in hands and slight headache), which our GP diagno ...
Every so often something reminds me that medicine, as it is now practised, engages in what the late medical critic Dr Robert Mendelsohn once referred to as "holy war on the family". ...
We’re always told that drug prescribing is all about a careful balance between risk and benefit. People suffering from severe depression do need help, and occasionally a prescribed antidepressant can be helpful. But new research reveals that doctors...
Remicade was trumpeted as a wonder drug for rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease when licensed for use six years ago.
HRT: Modesty forbids, but we told you so
