Otc medications don’t seem to make a difference - Are over-the-counter (OTC) medicines all that they’re cracked up to be? GPs and other health professionals are encouraged to recommend OTC cough medic...

Heart drug is wrecking my life - A drug for the few - Flecainide acetate (Tambocor) is a sodium-channel-blocking antiarrhythmic drug specifically prescribed for life-threatening cases of tachycardia (exce...

Children on diet of otc drugs - More than half of all three year olds in America are currently taking an over the counter (OTC) drug, even though some can cause serious side effects,...

Confessions of an OTC taker - Like so many thousands of others, I have been a victim of an over-the-counter (OTC) drug. They're the drugs that are freely available from chemists wi...

Regular blood tests for ritalin children - Re the article (WDDTY vol 15 no 7) ‘The newest brainkillers’ on the harmful side-effects of Ritalin, prescribed for hyperactive children, the British...

Cough Medicine: It doesn’t work for you or the kids - We all know – don’t we? – that the over-the-counter cough medicines don’t do much to help fight our children’s coughs. So it’s not an enormous leap o...

Just a spoonful of sugar. . . - There are many different types of cough preparations, generally falling into two categories: supressants and expectorants. Although many entice suffe...

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...