Drug trials: If you pay, it's a good drug - The effectiveness of a drug is usually established by a trial, often one that also uses a placebo, or sugar pill, or another drug from the same family...

Drug Trials: Drug co accused of using critically ill children as ‘guinea pigs’ - Pfizer are back in the dock again, this time for testing an experimental drug on children during a deadly meningitis outbreak. The drug giant faces a...

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MS ‘Wonder’ Drug: Hopes dashed as trials discover it’s no better than placebo - New multiple sclerosis (MS) ‘wonder’ drug Rituxan doesn’t work, the manufacturer has admitted. A two-year study has discovered that it is no better t...

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...

Drugs or Nothing: New FDA policy targets practitioners who offer an alternative - There seems to be a sea change in the enforcement policy of America’s health watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It’s targeting more al...

Social audit's charles medawar, the uk's drugs watchdog, pieces together new evidence demonstrating that the new, so-called safer antidepressants like prozac could be habit-forming. - Over the past 200 years, doctors have prescribed an almost uninterrupted succession of 'addictive' drugs, always in the belief they would not cause de...

The sunny side of eggs - American heart disease guru Dr Dean Ornish recently wrote: "Say no to the egg" (New York Times, Sept 15, 1997). ...