What Doctors Don't Tell YouSchizophrenia is now widely believed to be due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, and powerful psychoactive drugs are used to control it.
The heart drug Posicor (mibefradil dihydrochloride) has been withdrawn by the manufacturer after it caused cardiogenic shock in four patients one of whom died. ...
Lustral (sertraline), or Zoloft, as it’s sold in the US, is back in the news, but for all the wrong reasons. It is among the ‘gang of eight’ antidepressants named by the Food and Drug Administration,
Researchers have revealed that abuse of dietary supplements containing the toxic solvent 1,4-butanediol is on the rise, bringing an increased number of poisonings and even death. ...
SEROXAT: the drug the BBC dares name
Terbutaline infusion normally reserved for treating asthma and bronchitis is being used on women in the US to help their pregnancies go to term. It has extended some high risk pregnancies by 30 d ...
The drugs regulators, those sentinels at the gate who ensure our safety from dangerous prescription drugs, can sometimes be slow to act. It is now 18 months since we predicted the imminent withdrawal of Arava (leflunomide),
Since being approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in March, Viagra (sildenafil) has quickly become one of the most successful drugs in America gaining an enormous amount of worldwide pre ...
For the past 15 years evidence has stacked up showing patients with acute coronary thrombosis improve their survival chances by 50-82.5 per cent when given intravenous mageniusm of 32-66 mmol in ...
Experts in pharmacology are warning that the safety of Viagra must be subjected to more scrupulous review. ...
