Interfered with by interferon - Side-effects of interferon - At the top of its product information sheet, Schering announces that 'alfa interferons, including PEG-Intron, cause or aggravate fatal or life-threate...

Hepatitis: Grapefruit can fight it as well as drugs - A grapefruit may be all it takes to fight chronic hepatitis C. Currently sufferers have to take a powerful drug such as pegylated interferon, which c...

Chemotherapy can reactivate hepatitis virus - There’s now yet another reason to avoid chemotherapy. People with a history of hepatitis run the risk of having the virus reactivated by cancer dru...

Licking the aids virus - If you were to believe the medical literature, you'd think that modern medicine had licked the AIDS virus. ...

Mmr vaccine should never have been licenced - New evidence suggests that the MMR vaccine should never have been given a licence because there was never sufficient evidence of its safety or efficac...

Interfered with by interferon - I have had hepatitis C for 26 years and, recently, have been under great pressure from my hospital doctors to agree to combined inteferon/ribavirin tr...

ADHD: Toddlers are given powerful drugs that aren’t licensed or safe - Children as young as three are being given a powerful drug such as Ritalin to treat their ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) – even thoug...

Asthma drugs and immune function. - Can you tell me whether there is any research evidence that the asthma medications montelukast and zafirlukast can affect immunity? I suspect that tak...