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Avastin: Bad News for the Brain It’s no giant secret that chemotherapy is a knife-edge approach to healing—you take the drugs in the hopes that they will kill the cancer without killing you first. Natural pain relief A reader is eager for advice on how he can replace prescription pain medication with a natural alternative. Heart Drug: It causes major gastric problems Manufacturers of the heart drug Aldactone (spironolactone) saw sales soar after a study in 2004 found that it helped patients recover after suffering severe heart failure. A human guinea pig With atrial fibrillation, a high pulse rate and elevated blood pressure, I’ve gone through at least seven different medications, prescribed by my GP, over the last two years. I’m 71 and could not tole... Avian flu - The drugs don’t work The US and the nations in the European Union have recently pledged donations of US$1.9 billion to “prevent the development of human pandemic influenza”. However, researchers have found that the drugs... Metronidazole Neurological symptoms with FlagylA number of studies have shown peripheral neuropathy - nerve damage outside of the brain and spinal cord - to be among the more serious adverse effects of taking metro... Sciatica - Just say no to steroids Sciatica - pain along the large sciatic nerve that runs from the lower back down the back of each leg - can be severe and debilitating. As with so many chronic conditions, the treatment gets progressi... Metronidazole This drug (Flagyl) is among the most widely prescribed antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis (BV) in pregnant women - this despite the controversy that surrounds this drug. It has been... Cox-2 inhibitors The COX (cyclooxygenase)-2 inhibitors, also known as ‘selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs’ (NSAIDs), have long been touted as being safer for your stomach than painkillers such as aspirin... Pregnancy blues - Risk of birth defects Depressing news for the manufacturers of Paxil (paroxetine): new studies suggest that the antidepressant increases birth defects - particularly of the heart - when taken by pregnant women during the...

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31 May 2013 | Adverse Reactions (Caitlin Hubbard)

A Long Shot

L ast January, after sustaining an injury to one knee during a particularly heated hockey match, our 16-year-old daughter Anya, a sports scholar, was handed the diagnosis most dreaded by athletes of a... more »

30 Apr 2013 | Adverse Reactions (Caitlin Hubbard)

Back to the future

When Lynne’s mother was 24, her dentist unwisely extracted a tooth while she had the flu. Within days her neck had ballooned with a streptococcal infection and she was rushed to hospital. Lynne&... more »

8 Feb 2013 | Adverse Reactions (bshubbard)

They're not even wrong

There’s a breathtakingly ignorant comment that has done the rounds of late, and it goes like this: there are only two types of medicine, that which works and alternative medicine. ... more »

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