What Doctors Don't Tell YouAround 20 per cent of those taking the antibiotic ciprofloxacin to prevent anthrax infection will experience adverse reactions to the drug, say the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The drugs regulators, those sentinels at the gate who ensure our safety from dangerous prescription drugs, can sometimes be slow to act. It is now 18 months since we predicted the imminent withdrawal of Arava (leflunomide),
I started a music degree course at Birmingham Conservatoire as a mature student (I'm 24) in September 1999. A month later, I had the meningitis C vaccine, as all the first year students had been ...
Thousands of UK children are now being injected with the measles/rubella vaccine, regardless of previous immunizations and discounting any natural immunity acquired through having these diseases. ...
In the heady world of the pharmaceutical industry, the most profitable industry in the world - where world sales doubled in the last five years - the pressure is always intense to develop new product.
After a prostate biopsy, I was told to take a course of six ciprofloxacin tablets. Immediately after the fourth one, I was so ill with uncontrollable shaking fits, a lack of energy and internal problems that I stopped taking them. When I reported...
Azathioprine, like cyclosporin, is an immunosuppressive drug, originally designed to help the body stop rejecting organ transplants. It tinkers with the body's autoimmune function, leaving it sus ...
Feldene (generic name: piroxicam) seems to be one of those drugs that people either hate or really loathe. Manufactured by Pfizer, it's a nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drug (NSAID) designed to tr ...
Minocycline has become a first line treatment in the UK for severe acne. It is also used in the US at specialist skin centres, but its more common usage there is to treat infectious diseases. ...
It's one thing to get a drug approved for use it's quite another for the National Health Service to agree to adopt it. ... ...
