What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe maverick practice of off-label prescribing - giving drugs for unapproved conditions/patients - is once again in the limelight. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning against using ‘atypical antipsychotics’ to treat...
BUT SOMEBODY DOES: Glaxo charged with drug fraud over suppressed rese
Billy Flynn would have been devastated. For once, the ol’ razzle-dazzle just didn’t work. GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s largest drug conglomerate, which has grown fatter and fatter acquiring pharmaceutical small fry
Many of the drugs given to children have never been proven to be safe or effective for children. ...
THE DRUGS DON'T WORK: So why are more and more being prescribed for bi
Drugs are not always prescribed to treat the condition for which they were originally intended, or for which they earned their original license. The latest to get the ‘off-label’ treatment is that great urban myth Viagra (sildenafil). It...
In 1994, at the age of 17, I took a course of isotretinoin (Roaccutane) for mild acne, a decision I have regretted ever since.
