Appetite Suppressants: They cause heart failure, doctors discover - Anti-obesity drugs and appetite suppressants are causing heart attacks, doctors have discovered. All the patients had been healthy, with no history of...

Painkillers: - Who needs drugs when acupuncture works? - If the NSAID painkillers cause gastric bleeding and the COX-2 variety can lead to heart problems, where can you turn? Step forward acupuncture, the p...

Vioxx - Safe enough for children - It's been discovered that the discredited painkiller Vioxx had been approved for use by children just days before the manufacturer removed it from the...

Killer Drug: Company hid deaths from regulator - Drug manufacturer Merck knew one of its drugs was killing Alzheimer’s patients – but hid the fact from regulators for several years. The drug, the CO...

Painkillers: Merck is back with another ‘safe’ drug - How to succeed in business, lesson 439: Tenacity and persistence. This lesson’s case study is drug company Merck. The company is currently fighting...

Vitamin c repairs heart damage in smokers - Smoking can damage the vascular system and reduce blood flow to the heart. But, according to a new study carried out by scientists at the University H...

High Cholesterol: It can protect against heart failure, not cause it, new study finds - And the widespread use of statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs, may have little or no benefit, the same study finds.

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