Kidney failure and hypertension - Q My 75-year-old friend has been diagnosed with kidney failure. Dialysis shows that her kidneys are working 15 per cent below normal efficiency. We ar...

A pandora’s box of adverse effects - For years, non-specific anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin and paracetamol (acetaminophen) were the medications of choice for joint pain. But NSA...

Kidney failure and hypertension - Q An elderly colleague, aged 82, is experiencing symptoms that he feels may be attributable to his medication for high blood pressure. His daily regim...

Kidney Failure: The drug you shouldn’t have, but always get - If you sometimes wonder why there are so many adverse reactions to drugs, consider this story.

Adverse effects reported with anthrax prophylaxis - Around 20 per cent of those taking the antibiotic ciprofloxacin to prevent anthrax infection will experience adverse reactions to the drug, say the US...

Mph adverse effects: the unacceptable face of ritalin - Methylphenidate (MPH) treatment 'may be associated with unacceptable side effects and risks' (J Clin Psychiatry, 1998; 59 [Suppl 7]: 42-9).

Dental anaesthetic - I'm about to have major dental surgery. Are there any dangers from dental anaesthetic? G T, Windsor........ ...

Local anaesthetics cause fewer side effects - A new metaanalysis comparing general and spinal/ epidural types of anaesthesia has found that surgery using epidurals is less likely to produce advers...