What Doctors Don't Tell YouFour years ago, the report of a review of all major studies of the incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in hospitalised patients (JAMA, 1998, 279: 1200-5) made for sober reading.
Moclobemide had its origins as an antituberculosis drug before being developed as an antidepressant, once it was discovered it could cause euphoria in tuberculosis patients. ...
Of late, the marketing men at several drug companies have been mounting an assault on Prozac, the antidepressant that seems to have become a lifeline for a nervous generation.
In the early 1960s, researchers identified the fundamental brain defect behind Parkinson’s disease: loss of the brain cells producing the neurotransmitter dopamine, which helps control muscle activity. This led to the first successful treatment for...
PARKINSON'S: The forgotten drug
