What Doctors Don't Tell YouPresenilin inhibitors among the newest drugs to be developed for Alzheimer's disease could have "unfortunate effects" on the body, warn researchers in America. ...
A further doubt has been raised about blood transfusions following a new study that has found that transfusing red cells can endanger the life of patients.
Platelet transfusions (providing people who haemorrhage with platelets containing fresh blood), may not be as successful as the medical fraternity initially believed.
Q-I lost my spleen and kidney in an automobile accident, and have been advised that I will need to take antibiotics (amoxycillin) for the rest of my life. I am worried about the long term effects ...
Q-Can you tell me about the drug Melleril, please? My handicapped daughter was put on 150 mg a day which has been reduced to 50 mg twice daily. ...
More evidence - if more is needed - that sheep dip containing organophosphates causes ill health in farmers has been uncovered in a study from the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Surgical removal of the appendix, or appendectomy, is the most common operation in the West (BMJ, 2002; 325: 505-6): 6-8 per cent of Britons and North Americans will undergo the operation in their lifetime. Generally considered a safe and standard...
Steroids, even in low doses, can kill or maim. The common thread in the following cases was that the drugs weren't used for long periods but had a swift and devastating effect. ... ...
Last autumn, while we were all busy worrying about whether baby Leo got his MMR jab, the British government sneaked another vaccine into the preschooler booster schedule. Not just any old vaccine, but the most dangerous one of all.
