Organ transplant: 6 per cent end in TB - Up to 6 per cent of all patients who have an organ transplants will develop TB – and it’s usually from the donor. In most cases the surgery itself ac...

Psoriasis - Chemical overkill - Frustrated in its attempt to cure this puzzling complaint, medicine reaches for ever more potent concoctions from cancer drugs to those for organ tran...

Mobile phone cancer link to be tested in court - A claim that radiation from a mobile phone caused a fatal brain tumour is to be heard by an American court within 12 months. ...

Psoriasis : drug doubts - Sandoz, which manufactures cyclosporin A, the drug used to help organ transplants "take", has applied to license the drug to treat recalcitrant cases...

Azathioprine - Azathioprine, like cyclosporin, is an immunosuppressive drug, originally designed to help the body stop rejecting organ transplants. It tinkers with...

Woman claims tumour caused by mobile phone - The first British injuries case alleging that a brain tumour was caused by mobile phone use is going ahead on the back of a new large scale study that...

Rapamune - Rapamune (sirolimus), an immunosuppressant for after organ transplants, has had a troubled history, with patients having the unfortunate habit of dyin...

Spin doctors of cancer - In the early part of this century, a group of doctors gathered round a patient with cancer, regarding him as something akin to a circus freak. "Take a...