Us pharmaceutical companies target consumers direct - US drug companies have decided to take their wares directly to the people. ...

That's nice: well it is for the pharmaceutical companies, at any rate - NICE isn t supposed to be not to pharmaceutical companies at least NICE which stands for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence is the t...

Adverse Reactions: 700,000 people need emergency hospital care every year - Statistic of the week: Every year 700,000 people in the USA need emergency out-patient hospital care following an adverse reaction to a prescription...

Oxygen therapies - A breath of fresh air - Pioneers in various countries are amassing evidence that oxygen therapiesozone, hydrogen peroxide and hyperbaric oxygen can successfully battle a load...

Emergency care: - Heart patients are better off without it - Whatever we may think about the drug companies, we recognize that the doctors who work tirelessly in our emergency wards are heroes. Should we ever f...

Emergency care: - It's so bad that it kills a third of patients - The health service is seriously overstretched. Patients with chronic conditions that require routine care tend to get the worst of it, so perhaps the...

Hospital infections: It’s up to the patient to tell the doctor to wash his hands, says health chief - Hospital doctors in the UK so rarely wash their hands while on their rounds that patients are being encouraged to have their own hand-gel ready by the...

Glass Houses: Cancer specialist attacks alternative therapies - Everyone knows the old saying 'People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones', everyone, that is, except Prof Jonathan Waxman, a cancer specialist at...