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Reader's Corner
’Tis the season that brings to mind auld acquaintances, and Roaccutane (isotretinoin), the acne drug, is fully deserving of the biggest Drug of the Month welcome.
Despite a tireless sales campaign by doctors and the drug industry, half of all women prescribed HRT stop within six months, according to a recent survey by the National Opinions Polls, and four o ...
I was put on a new blood pressure drug as I was told that one of the drugs I had been taking for years had been found to be no good for hypertension.
Screening for prostate cancer is surrounded by controversy - and with good reason. Although deaths due to prostate cancer have gone down since 1985, when the PSA test
The first death associated with the abortion pill, which is close to being approved in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, has occurred in France. ...
The cholesterol lowering drug simvastatin may cause the development of the muscular disorder poly myositis in some patients. ...
Infertile women who unsuccessfully take drugs to help them conceive may not only remain childless but end up with ovarian cancer, according to an analysis of 12 studies of the disease. ...

