A pandora’s box of adverse effects - For years, non-specific anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin and paracetamol (acetaminophen) were the medications of choice for joint pain. But NSA...

Probiotic Drinks - First there was plain yoghurt, then fruit yoghurts, then yoghurt drinks, and now everyone ’s talking about - and apparently consuming - gut-friendly p...

Diarrhea: A probiotic drink can fix it - A probiotic yogurt drink can stop diarrhea, doctors have discovered. They gave a probiotic that contains Lactobacillus to a group of patients in hosp...

Vitamins: They can make you healthier (and grass may be green in a double-blind placebo study) - The understanding of nutrition plays a tiny part in a doctor’s education – in fact, it’s around one day out of a five-year programme – and so any stud...

Probiotics: They protect the gut when you take an antibiotic - There’s been a lot of talk recently about the effectiveness of probiotics – and, judging by a new study, there may be something to it.

Adverse effects reported with anthrax prophylaxis - Around 20 per cent of those taking the antibiotic ciprofloxacin to prevent anthrax infection will experience adverse reactions to the drug, say the US...

Barking: Drug companies resort to double-blind placebo boys in suits with violin cases - Is UK Prime Minister Tony Blair still US President Bush’s poodle? We’ll soon find out following intensive lobbying by the White House to grant the Am...

Mph adverse effects: the unacceptable face of ritalin - Methylphenidate (MPH) treatment 'may be associated with unacceptable side effects and risks' (J Clin Psychiatry, 1998; 59 [Suppl 7]: 42-9).