Too much sugar produces free radicals - A new clinical study has shown that glucose ingestion can lead to increased production of free radicals in the body. ...

Parents prefer pills for fever - Parents would rather give their children doses of paracetamol to reduce a fever than use a more effective drug free method. ...

Pharmaceuticals: Children given danger drugs as free samples - Free drug samples are regularly handed out to small children as a marketing ploy – and they are even being given drugs that have been given a warning...

The court: a last resort - A recent study commissioned by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), a plaintiff lawyers group, demonstrated that the success rate of leg...

Insect repellents 'can kill', parents are warned - Parents in the US are being warned against using some insect repellents on their small children because they may trigger a wide range of health proble...

A disease of doctors - When we think of pneumonia, we see it as a complicated and dangerous infection caused by bugs ‘in the air’. But there are a number of disparate, but c...

Letters - On the last page of the extremely interesting and useful article on ME (vol 4 no 5), you mention in the box that 'Biolab can help practitioners test f...

Your options - Steroids are fast catching up with antibiotics as the most abused class of drugs in your doctor's black bag. There's no doubt that the discovery of st...