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Psoriasis: Drug causes life-threatening infection - A psoriasis drug can cause life-threatening infections, including bacterial sepsis, viral meningitis and invasive fungal disease, it has been revealed...

Catheters are 'life threatening' - Pulmonary artery catheters used extensively in hospitals to check heart and organ condition could be a danger to the patient, possibly even threatenin...

Atherosclerosis: scurvy in disguise - For more than 50 years, medicine has claimed that a diet high in cholesterol and fat is responsible for coronary artery disease. However, growing evid...

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Nut Allergy: The 4 golden rules to avoid a life-threatening attack - If you have a nut allergy, there are four major things you need to do if you are to avoid a serious – and possibly fatal – reaction, especially if you...

Aspirin: It kills 20,000 Americans every year - Common over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin kill around 20,000 Americans every year, and another 100,000 end up in hospital as a result of tak...

Warfarin - Warfarin sodium is an anticoagulant, based on vitamin K, which thins the blood to prevent a thrombosis. It is also sometimes prescribed after a heart...