What Doctors Don't Tell YouMy daughter had a febrile seizure on her first birthday, less than two weeks after MMR vaccination. Of my three children, she’s the only one who has had convulsions. Her early childhood health was poor, with recurring ear infections, high...
Q I have Crohn’s disease and my GP has recently offered me a new drug called Remicade. Do you have any information on this drug? - RH, Elstead, Surrey
I was diagnosed in April last year with polymyalgia. It came on suddenly overnight; having gone to bed the night before perfectly well, I woke up with severe pain in my head, temples, forehead, neck and the base of my spine.
Public health officials claim that there are fewer serious neurological side-effects with the new vaccine, but few studies have compared its safety with the older pertussis vaccines, except for injection site reactions or fever (Pediatrics, 1995;...
ARTHRITIS? So let’s try this cancer therapy on you . . .
Statins, commonly used to treat high cholesterol levels, may also cause symptoms of muscle tenderness and weakness.
It is the second most common neurological disorder after stroke - affecting one in 2000 people. However, this is not a simple disorder, but a group of central nervous system (CNS) disorders
It is difficult to believe that I was diagnosed with advanced invasive breast cancer - and given a poor prognosis - back in April 2000. Eight months later, having followed a different treatment path, I went into remission and have never looked back...
In the heady world of the pharmaceutical industry, the most profitable industry in the world - where world sales doubled over the last five years - the pressure is always intense to develop new product.
Didronel PMO (etidronate) is specifically licensed to treat Paget’s disease, a serious bone-thinning condition. But so enthusiastic was the manufacturer about the benefits of its drug that it urged doctors to prescribe it
