What Doctors Don't Tell YouThat old Chinese proverb 'Be careful what you wish for as you might just get it' comes to mind when we hear the calls from multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers in the UK for free access to the drug interferon beta-1b.
My sister, who lives in Holland, is a Parkinson’s patient who is treating her condition with marijuana - or derivatives of it. In the last couple of months, Dutch doctors have been allowed to prescribe marijuana-based medication for Parkinson’s,
Infants given the antibiotic erythromycin may be at greater risk of developing pyloric stenosis narrowing of a band of muscle which then prevents partially digested food from entering the small in ...
New evidence adds to the growing concern that drug use not ageing causes many of the diseases commonly seen in the elderly. ...
The newer anti hypertensive drugs, such as the ACE inhibitor, do not produce significantly better results than older style heart drugs, especially in the elderly, according to new research. ...
A worldwide alert has been raised over the severe side effects that can be caused by the osteoporosis drug alendronate, marketed as Fosamax. ...
There are many different types of cough preparations, generally falling into two categories: supressants and expectorants. Although many entice sufferers with "natural" ingredients such as lemon, ...
The probiotics Lactobacillus and Saccharomyces boulardii (a yeast) are better than placebo in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, according to a recent meta-analysis.
Q:What are the risks of my child taking growth hormone replacement drugs, particularly Genotropin? L M W....... ...
Q:In vol 4 no 2, a Q & A brought me up short. In the answer to the problem of long term side effects from female sterilization, you state ". . . when you clip the tubes closed, you block the ...
