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. ...
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American doctors have been warned to stop prescribing the calcium-channel blocker nifedipine, used to treat high blood pressure, angina and heart attack. ...
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...
