What Doctors Don't Tell YouMy 84-year-old husband has been on a combination of drugs for the last five years.
Even short term low dose anaesthetics may compromise the health of very young children, according to a recent report. ...
The elderly are much more likely to suffer a serious fall which leads to a hospital stay if they are taking a sedative or tranquillizer such as benzodiazepine. ...
Nearly a fifth of operations performed during weekday evenings and 7 per cent of those performed during the daytime and at weekends are performed by unsupervised junior doctors. ...
Heart attack patients may be dying because of the drug treatment being prescribed by their doctors. Researchers have found that heart drugs with d-sotalol (in the UK: Beta-Cardone, Sotacor, Sotaz ...
Drug companies have been accused of suppressing vital data showing that their new-generation atypical antipsychotics are killing around one in four elderly dementia patients. The startling discovery was made in nine separate studies that were...
Q:I am 36 and have had bad acne since puberty. In October I finally went to see a dermatologist, who prescribed erythromycin and said that I should take it for a few months and then go onto a dru ...
Q:We are facing the prospect of having to undergo investigations in an attempt to determine the cause of our infertility. We have been trying to have a baby for almost three years. Tests done ha ...
Q:I read with interest one of your reader's letters regarding vitamin K. I'm due to have my first baby in five weeks and her letter prompted me to enquire about this vitamin while attending antena ...
Besides offering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a quick-fix solution for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, mood swings and weight gain, medicine has been using it as preventative medicine against cardiovascular problems such as heart...
