What Doctors Don't Tell YouNeurologists are playing a high risk strategy by introducing the drug interferon beta-1b into their general treatment of multiple sclerosis on the basis of just one small trial, a leading physicia ...
A drug which could cause suicidal depression has been licenced by the American Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple sclerosis. ...
Berlex, which makes Betaseron (interferon beta-1b), has issued a warning regarding the drug’s adverse effects on the liver. Used to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis, the drug can cause autoimmune hepatitis, leading to kidney failure, and...
Roferon-A is a neutron bomb of a drug designed to megablast the most pernicious of systemic conditions, but not necessarily to leave the patient standing. As such, it recently won the accolade in ...
That old Chinese proverb 'Be careful what you wish for as you might just get it' comes to mind when we hear the calls from multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers in the UK for free access to the drug interferon beta-1b.
MS: A treatment too far
Interferon a protein produced when the body is infected with a virus exerts a powerful immunosuppressant effect of which hearing loss is one of the major side effects (Lancet, 1994; 343: 1134-5). ...
Fertility drugs, which are now handed out like candy, can treble your cancer risks, yet may not work as well as a simple supplement programme. ...
Q My son, aged 38, was diagnosed with hepatitis C about five years ago. He tried Chinese herbs and acupuncture for some months, but with little success. He was offered the then experimental chemotherapy
