Car Seats: They’re safer than seat belts

Booster seats: they're a must in the car for every young child

We put our babies and small infants in special safety seats in the back seats of our cars. But what happens when our children outgrow them? For many o...

A children’s health scandal exposed

Children as young as two are being prescribed powerful mood-changing drugs such as Prozac and other antidepressants. Although usage usually begins at...

Health regulator told of PIP implant dangers six years ago

The UK’s healthcare regulator first knew about the potential dangers of the PIP breast implants five years ago, and yet allowed thousands more women t...

Hrt: new evidence shows link with endometrial cancer

The safety of unopposed low potency oestrogens, prescribed to treat urogenital symptoms in post menopausal women, is once again being questioned in n...

Avandia: It stays on the market despite new evidence of heart risk

Better safe than sorry is clearly not the motto of American’s drug ‘watchdog’, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after it allowed the anti-diabe...

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...