What Doctors Don't Tell YouModern contraceptives vary in effectiveness from 94 per cent with the diaphragm up to 99.9 per cent with the Pill. But you pay for this success rate. They all have adverse side effects, ranging f ...
Despite the advent of new antidepressant drugs such as the SSRIs, psychiatrists are still prescribing the older tricyclic drugs, the best known of which are amitriptyline and imipramine.
The injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera may cause a loss of bone density. America’s drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has added a new ‘black-box’ warning to the drug, highlighting the problems with its prolonged use.
Our health officials luxuriate in the idea that we have freedom of information about medicine. Patients are now properly informed, and every door is open. ...
Heparin (the generic name for a range of drugs, including HepLok in the US, and PumpHep and Unihep in the UK) is an anticoagulant, often used as a "just in case" therapy if there is a danger of ...
Nifedipine is a heart drug, marketed as Adalat by Bayer in the UK (Miles in the US), and as Procardia and XL by Pfizer in the US. It is used to treat relatively mild heart conditions, such as hig ...
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 ...
Vioxx (rofecoxib) is the first of a new kind of analgesic to be licensed in the UK. It employs a pioneering technology called COX-2 (selective cyclo oygenase 2 inhibitors), which is supposed to o ...
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Q About a year ago, I was given a spinal injection for a suspected hernia which has left me with a very painful lower back. Have you come across other people with long-term lower-back pain
