Heart product fraud admitted - An American company producing pharmaceutical equipment has agreed to plead guilty to committing what the Lancet (23 October 1993) has termed "the larg...

New drugs - New profits for old product - Most new drugs are simply old drugs with a bit of window dressing to justify double the price tag. Yet, the dangers multiply from these novel twists a...

Your Prescription: Nobody knows, except the regulator, a large corporation, and drug companies - You might reasonably assume that the treatment that your doctor prescribes for you in his surgery is as private as the confessional. But, of course,...

Fraud during eye trial probed - Cases of medical fraud in the US continue to come to light. Following on from the discovery that falsified data found its way into a major cancer stud...

Depressed patients are overdosing by doctors’ prescription - Despite the advent of new antidepressant drugs such as the SSRIs, psychiatrists are still prescribing the older tricyclic drugs, the best known of whi...

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...

Infertility drugs - The cancer risks - Fertility drugs, which are now handed out like candy, can treble your cancer risks, yet may not work as well as a simple supplement programme. ...

Potency drugs - Readers’ alert: drug cocktails - My cousin Doll, who is over 80, had a heart attack with angina two years ago. She bruises badly with the slightest knock or scratch and also has verti...