What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ:Despite the fact that doctors have got me diagnosed as epileptic, I know I am not and that the underlying cause of my seizures is anti-convulsants. When I put together certain factors to test my ...
Q:Our son Ian died last year. He was 35, mentally handicapped and had epilepsy. He lived with us at home. He used to take Epilim, Tegretol and folic acid every day. Last year he was prescribed ...
Readers’ letters
In WDDTY vol 14 no 11, News, p 6, you reported on shaken baby syndrome and a possible link to the DPT vaccine. Someone said to me, 'No wonder they put Sally Clark in prison - to keep her quiet.
Our story last time about the dangers of statins has clearly struck a chord with drug regulators in the UK who are now making them available over-the-counter. So anyone can pop into their local pharmacy and pick up a supply of these great drugs that...
Ibuprofen, the grandfather of all non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), was considered so safe that it was made an over-the-counter drug. This class of drugs (Nurofen, Brufen, Motrin, Rufen, Advil, Nuprin, Medipren) is used to treat fever...
Antibiotics, the wonder drugs of the Fifties, are responsible for many aillnesses in the Nineties. ... ...
British pharmaceutical company Kabi Pharmacia has voluntarily withdrawn its anti incontinence drug Micturin, after evidence has surfaced possibly linking it to eight deaths. ...
The UK drug regulatory bodies (Medicines Control Agency and the committee on the Safety of medicines), in a rare request for self justification, have been asked to defend their recommendations on ...
The use of zidovudine (AZT) to combat AIDS and HIV may be causing mutations of the HIV virus which are resistant to the drug. ...
