What Doctors Don't Tell YouMany doctors, when prescribing drugs, routinely fail to check the manufacturer’s printed material on potential side-effects. Indeed, many GPs continue to believe that drugs don’t have side-effects.
I have high blood pressure and was given a beta blocker drug by my GP last September. I was assured there would be no side effects. ... ...
BAD SCIENCE So many studies, so many flaws A full one-third of American scientists have been found guilty of serious misconduct while undertaking medical research over the last three years. Their misdeeds have included the falsification of data...
Although beta blockers have been used for over 30 years to treat high blood pressure in elderly people, new analysis has discovered that the drugs are no more effective than a sugar pill. ...
This month, Dr Uffe Ravnskov's cover story and Annemarie Colbin's Second Opinion (p 12) both offer potent evidence that the real cause of all the heart disease in the West may have little to do wi ...
Samuel J. Mann MD, is an associate professor of clinical medicine at the Hypertension Center of The New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. ...
Despite the US emphasis on a fat free lifestyle, researchers at the Mayo Clinic report that the average blood pressure in American men and women has risen alarmingly in the last 10 years. ...
High blood pressure in the elderly can be safely reduced without drugs just by taking a mineral salt containing magnesium and potassium, researchers in the Netherlands have discovered. ...
A significant number of high blood pressure patients taking angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, which reduces the constriction of arteries and lowers blood volume, will develop angioeo ...
What depressing reading your WDDTY vol 14 no 10 made - rightly headed ‘Depression’. It seems that Big Pharma will go to any lengths to sell its products, irrespective of whether they have been tested or not.
