If you ever wonder whether doctors ever read the fine print in their MIMS and other reference books of drug side effects, look no further than the case of Melleril, which was withdrawn in December ...
Drugs given during surgery to reduce blood loss and so lessen the need for transfusion may be largely ineffective and actually do harm. ...
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: They're great for two-year-olds
Q How safe are the barcode scanners that our food passes through on the supermarket checkout stand?
I started a music degree course at Birmingham Conservatoire as a mature student (I'm 24) in September 1999. A month later, I had the meningitis C vaccine, as all the first year students had been ...
Amid health scares about genetically modified food, BSE, salmonella and E coli, it's no surprise that consumers have turned to organic produce. ...
Remicade was trumpeted as a wonder drug for rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease when licensed for use six years ago.
Drug regulators and, indeed, pharmaceutical companies themselves often reassure themselves that the patient knows about the risks of the drug he is taking because of the packet insert provided eac ...
Researcher Doris Jones has unearthed startling new evidence demonstrating that fluoride interferes with enzyme systems, damaging many organ systems of the body. ...
Although amalgam dental fillings have been in widespread use for around 150 years, this started to change in the mid-1980s, when evidence began to emerge that mercury vapour was being released from these fillings. However, there was not much...

