Sugar-coated help from nhs direct - My husband was taken ill with a raging virus. There was no cold or chest infection, yet, by the middle of the following night, he was losing a lot of...

Cough Remedies: Don’t give them to the under-2s - If you have children who’re younger than two years, don’t give them one of the popular cough or cold remedies.

Cough Remedies: They’re more dangerous than you might think - Cold and cough remedies that we leave around the home could be a lot more dangerous than we realise. A new report estimates that around 7,000 childre...

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...

Cough Medicine: It doesn’t work for you or the kids - We all know – don’t we? – that the over-the-counter cough medicines don’t do much to help fight our children’s coughs. So it’s not an enormous leap o...

Case study: The side effects of steroid drug combinations - At age 29, I became seriously ill and was eventually diagnosed as suffering from asthma and a condition known as pulmonary eosinophilia. ... ...

Gps worried by otc drugs - Pharmacists should be looking out for any serious reactions among their customers who are able to buy a growing range of powerful drugs over the count...

Cholesterol drug no better than placebo-specialist - Pravastatin, the cholesterol lowering drug, is no better than placebo, a leading heart specialist has concluded. For every case of heart attack the d...