New heart drugs offer no benefit over older types - The newer anti hypertensive drugs, such as the ACE inhibitor, do not produce significantly better results than older style heart drugs, especially in...

Allergies: Link to Parkinson’s discovered - The millions of sufferers of allergies are up to three times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease later in life, new research has found.

High Blood Pressure: Two types of drugs increase the risk of diabetes (and two lower it) - Beta blockers and diuretics – designed to lower blood pressure – increase the risk of diabetes, a major new study has found.

Diuretics given unnecessarily - Many elderly patients are being unnecessarily treated with diuretic drugs, according to research from the Netherlands. ...

Sponging up antihistamines - Allergies and asthma are indications that your body has increased its production of histamine a neurotransmitter that regulates water metabolism. This...

Diabetes: - Shall we tell the doctors? - Everyone knows that type 2 diabetes is an epidemic caused by the modern lifestyle and diet - everyone that is except doctors, according to a new study...

New drugs - New profits for old product - Most new drugs are simply old drugs with a bit of window dressing to justify double the price tag. Yet, the dangers multiply from these novel twists a...

Antihistamines: not for colds - A US congressional subcommittee is currently investigating why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permits antihistamines in cold remedies, when th...