What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn one of your issues, you cited the antibiotic Minocin as being linked to triggering autoimmune illness, namely, lupus. At around age 16, I was put on Minomycin for acne. Apart from digestive u ...
How close are we to compulsory fluoridation in Britain? In July 1997, a regional UK health authority was given High Court permission to launch a judicial review to challenge the local water autho ...
It’s been just a few short months since Avastin (bevacizumab) was being hailed as the great new breakthrough drug for cancer therapy. It is the first drug designed to stop angiogenesis, the development of new blood vessels to carry vital nutrients...
Proscar (finasteride) is making a return visit as our Drug of the Month, following some sensational revelations. Manufactured by Merck, it has quickly established itself as the treatment of choice ...
Crestor (rosuvastatin): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Public Health Advisory notifying healthcare professionals that 22 members of the European Union (EU) have modified their labels for this drug
Alopecia hits men and women on different parts of the head and in varying degrees. Men tend to lose hair along the scalp, while women's hair starts thinning from the front part of the head.
At the top of its product information sheet, Schering announces that 'alfa interferons, including PEG-Intron, cause or aggravate fatal or life-threatening neuropsychiatric, autoimmune, ischemic and infectious disorders'.
MELANOMA: It's down to omega-6, not the sun
A hospital in Copenhagen has stopped using radiation therapy as first choice treatment for a condition caused by overactive thyroid, after it temporarily blinded one woman (Lancet, 1998; 351: 725) ...
Keyhole surgery can trigger gallbladder cancer or cause it to recur, researchers have found. The procedure, known as laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which involves the removal of the gall bladder, c ...
