What Doctors Don't Tell YouTHIMEROSAL: Why is this poison still in our vaccines?
Britain not normally renowned for its stringent environmental controls is the first country in the world to establish a standard for levels of the pollutant benzene, following the recent publicati ...
A recent case study adds to the catalogue of potential adverse effects of steroid use after organ transplantation. ...
America's top health officials have delayed the introduction of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) even though they know that the live version is causing up to 10 cases of paralytic polio ev ...
Oral and intravenous forms of the antifungal itraconazole (Sporanox) have been found to lead to an increased risk of congestive heart failure. ...
Newer third generation birth control pills such as desogestrel or gestodene may not be safer for your heart than their predecessors, as originally predicted. ...
This month, we received a letter from a family planning doctor defending the use of the Pill (see Letters, p 8). It got me thinking about how this drug, more than any other, is getting away with m ...
The epilepsy drug phenytoin can cause brain damage in babies if taken during pregnancy, according to a Canadian study. ...
Atherosclerosis has another sting in its tail. One of the effects of a restricted blood supply to the heart is to cause it to become unstable and go into arrhythmia - heart flutters or atrial fibrillation (AF). It may sound benign, but AF is, in...
The COX-2 inhibitors are not the only arthritis drugs under scrutiny at the moment. The US Food and Drug Administration is also taking a good hard look at the tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-blocking drugs, also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis...
