What Doctors Don't Tell YouErythromycin treatment in infants, particularly those in the first two weeks of life, increases the risk of a gastrointestinal disorder called infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS).
Statins used for lowering cholesterol are reckoned to be some of the safest prescription drugs around. But new evidence coming out of the US suggests this may no longer be the case.
I am 54, and I have an underactive thyroid for which I take thyroxine. In 1989, I unfortunately allowed myself to be talked into taking HRT. The one reason that persuaded me was the protection it ...
Modern 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 ...
