What Doctors Don't Tell YouMost new drugs are simply old drugs with a bit of window dressing to justify double the price tag. Yet, the dangers multiply from these novel twists and aren’t picked up until after the drugs are taken by millions.
Paroxetine (marketed in the UK as Seroxat and in the US as Paxil) is an antidepressant that has been blamed for causing chronic hepatitis. The drug, manufactured by Smithkline Beecham, is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI),
I was so very sad to read of Aaron’s terrible death in Case Study (WDDTY vol 13 no 2), but very concerned that anyone prescribed prednisolone should feel threatened. At 61, I became seriously ill with polymyalgia rheumatica and, appallingly, my...
One of the most popular drugs for treating high blood pressure actually raises the risk of a heart attack by 60 per cent. ...
The entire approach of lowering cholesterol is faulty. The Framingham Project, which followed a Massachusetts study group over time, found a significant correlation between total cholesterol and h ...
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.
Often, the short-term clinical trials, which also often involve only small numbers of ‘healthy’ patients don’t uncover the worst side-effects, which then only emerge when a drug is taken by the public at large.
Rapamune (sirolimus), an immunosuppressant for after organ transplants, has had a troubled history, with patients having the unfortunate habit of dying - especially after liver transplants.
Our eldest son Aaron was intelligent and gifted, loved art, literature and music, played classical and electric guitar. He had his own band and also played the violin in the Chichester Youth Orchestra and West Sussex County Orchestra.
Women who stay on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for more than 10 years increase their risks of developing fatal ovarian cancer by 70 per cent, a major new study has discovered. ...
