MMR: Vaccine can cause blood disorder - There’s more bad news for advocates of the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine with the discovery this week that it can cause a blood disorder. Resea...

Drug Safety: 93 patients and 149 errors suggests a rethink - Drugs are perfectly safe – while they remain in their containers. But things go terribly wrong, and in the vast majority of cases, once they’ve been...

Antipsychotic Drugs - Olanzapine - Q My wife and daughter were both put onto olanzapine (Zyprexa) last year, having been prescribed other antipsychotic drugs for 30 and 10 years, respec...

Nsaids: - The risks outweigh the benefits for osteoarthritis sufferers - Most osteoarthritis sufferers are still on long-term therapy either with one of the painkilling NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs) or a...

Antipsychotics - Killers by any name - We’ve covered the health hazards of ‘atypical’ antipsychotics, including the recent FDA warning that they increase mortality among elderly patients. B...

Nsaids: - How about giving them to cancer patients? - It's truly wonderful the way that drugs companies can reinvent their products, even those that are discredited. The most creative example of this rei...

Are new antipsychotics superior to conventional ones? - The so-called ‘atypical antipsychotic drugs’ have been hailed as a pharmaceutical breakthrough and have, by now, largely replaced the old guard of neu...

Antipsychotics: - They don't work, and they're dangerous - Doctors in nursing homes prescribe antipsychotic drugs with the same lack of thought that the service staff employs to place the order for tomorrow's...