What Doctors Don't Tell YouArt and Vickie McConnell are refusing to go away quietly. A few years ago, they watched helplessly as steroids poisoned and killed their nine year old daughter Lexie after only five weeks once th ...
The latest bit of gee whizz technology, laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal), has been given US official "gold standard" treatment approval for gallstones, even though questions pers ...
This so called miracle preventative for heart attacks usually isn't necessary. When it is, the effects don't last. The number of deaths from heart disease reads like a terrifying roll call of modern times: in 1989, 1 million people died of heart...
Statins used for lowering cholesterol are reckoned to be some of the safest prescription drugs around. But new evidence coming out of the US suggests this may no longer be the case.
Two years ago, I found a lump in my breast. After I'd had a scan, they found that my left silicone breast implant had ruptured after being in place for 12 years. ...
The safety of the broad spectrum antibiotic co-trimoxazole, prescribed most frequently as Septrin (Septra in the US) or Bactrim, has been suspect for many years. This drug usually consists of five ...
Most of the so called inactive ingredients added to food and drugs to make them more appealing can have as many side effects as drugs themselves. ...
The heart drug Posicor (mibefradil dihydrochloride) has been withdrawn by the manufacturer after it caused cardiogenic shock in four patients one of whom died. ...
Between 1990 and 2000, more than 500,000 pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in the US were subject to manufacturer safety alerts or recalls.
Q Since the concerns about the safety of computer VDUs [video display units] some 10 years ago, has there been more recent research that continues to voice health worries, or have new developments made VDUs less hazardous?
