Wonder drug in trouble - Part 794: step forward remicade - Remicade was hailed as a wonder drug for rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease when it was licensed for use six years ago. It was such a wonder dr...

Rheumatoid arthritis - In treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), conventional medicine has concentrated on powerful drugs to suppress symptoms. But there are a surprising numb...

Rheumatoid Arthritis: But which drugs work? - There are plenty of drugs around for treating rheumatoid arthritis – but doctors don’t have a clue which ones work. Even though researchers have been...

Rheumatoid arthritis - Four years ago (WDDTY, vol 8, no 6) when I first wrote about rheumatoid arthritis (RA), I reported that wearing copper bracelets, correcting low gastr...

Case study: rheumatoid arthritis and HRT - I have had rheumatoid arthritis for more than 10 years. When it was first diagnosed, I was given Indocid, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Wh...

Wonder drug, no. 1729 - This time it's the ultimate magic bullet - If you happen to read a newspaper, listen to the radio or watch television, you probably already know about a new wonder drug. In fact, the drug - ri...

MS ‘Wonder’ Drug: Hopes dashed as trials discover it’s no better than placebo - New multiple sclerosis (MS) ‘wonder’ drug Rituxan doesn’t work, the manufacturer has admitted. A two-year study has discovered that it is no better t...

Cancer wonder drug kill or cure? - In the clamour to get the new breast-cancer wonder drug Herceptin available on the UK’s National Health Service, everyone seems to be ignoring the fac...