What Doctors Don't Tell YouANTIDEPRESSANTS: The suicide watch
Who reads drug warnings? Not doctors, it seems. Doctors and obstetricians in particular have been giving pregnant women injections of Bricanyl (terbutaline sulphate) to help them go to full term ...
Imagine it. You’re a typical drug company.
Interferon, hailed as offering "a new era" in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), could actually be making patients suicidal, doctors fear. ...
Novartis has issued new warnings for its antiepilepsy drug Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) that highlight the drug’s serious skin-related side-effects such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). SJS is a hypersensitivity...
Ibuprofen, the grandfather of all non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), was considered so safe that it was made an over-the-counter drug. This class of drugs (Nurofen, Brufen, Motrin, Rufen, Advil, Nuprin, Medipren) is used to treat fever...
We’ve covered the health hazards of ‘atypical’ antipsychotics, including the recent FDA warning that they increase mortality among elderly patients. But a new study has just been published that draws the same conclusion for the older, ‘conventional’...
GlaxoWellcome's IBS drug Lotronex (alosetron hydrochloride) has been withdrawn from the US market after just nine months, following reports of five deaths among patients. In all, the Food and Dru ...
KNOW YOUR PPA: Don’t buy products with this deadly ingredient
The anti Parkinson's drug selegiline can significantly increase the risk of death among patients who are under 80 years of age. ...
