http://www.wddty.com/new-drugs-new-profits-for-old-product en-gb http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 20 Drug companies have been accused of suppressing vital data showing that their new-generation atypical antipsychotics are killing around one in four elderly dementia patients. The startling discovery was made in nine separate studies that were sponsored by the drug companies - and yet, none has been published. A research team from the University of Southern California (USC) discovered the suppressed studies while gathering material for a meta-analysis of four atypical antipsychotic drugs - aripiprazole, olanzapine, risperidone and quetiapine. http://www.wddty.com/news-antipsychotics_1.html http://www.wddty.com/news-antipsychotics_1.html Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Many water companies in the UK have been reluctant to add fluoride to the local water supply because of fears of being sued by consumers who may claim their health has been harmed by the move. But a recent law, the Water Act 2003, takes the decision away from the water authorities and has instead handed it to the local health authorities. This means that the water companies are under a duty to fluoridate the local supply if instructed to do so by the health authority. http://www.wddty.com/news-fluoride.html http://www.wddty.com/news-fluoride.html Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Drug companies have been accused of suppressing vital data showing that their new-generation atypical antipsychotics are killing around one in four elderly dementia patients. The startling discovery was made in nine separate studies that were sponsored by the drug companies - and yet, none has been published. A research team from the University of Southern California (USC) discovered the suppressed studies while gathering material for a meta-analysis of four atypical antipsychotic drugs - aripiprazole, olanzapine, risperidone and quetiapine. http://www.wddty.com/news-antipsychotics.html http://www.wddty.com/news-antipsychotics.html Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Many water companies in the UK have been reluctant to add fluoride to the local water supply because of fears of being sued by consumers who may claim their health has been harmed by the move. But a recent law, the Water Act 2003, takes the decision away from the water authorities and has instead handed it to the local health authorities. This means that the water companies are under a duty to fluoridate the local supply if instructed to do so by the health authority. http://www.wddty.com/news-fluoride_1.html http://www.wddty.com/news-fluoride_1.html Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health First, the bad news. New estimates suggest that more than 2000 people die in UK hospitals every year as a direct result of staff errors. The far worse news is that the figures are wildly conservative, partly because very few hospital staff members will admit that their error was responsible for a patient''s death. The figures also exclude deaths due to hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). http://www.wddty.com/news-hospital-audits.html http://www.wddty.com/news-hospital-audits.html Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health First, the bad news. New estimates suggest that more than 2000 people die in UK hospitals every year as a direct result of staff errors. The far worse news is that the figures are wildly conservative, partly because very few hospital staff members will admit that their error was responsible for a patient''s death. The figures also exclude deaths due to hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). http://www.wddty.com/news-hospital-audits_1.html http://www.wddty.com/news-hospital-audits_1.html Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health mental health, screening, diagnosis, antidepressants, lawsuit, obsessive-compulsive disorder, patients’ rights, parental permission, social-anxiety disorder http://www.wddty.com/news-mental-screening.html http://www.wddty.com/news-mental-screening.html Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Common household bleach could be a cause of asthma and chronic bronchitis researchers believe A study involving domestic cleaners found a high incidence of both conditions and the participants were... http://www.wddty.com/news-asthma.html http://www.wddty.com/news-asthma.html Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Besides Herceptin, doctors and the media proclaim that numerous breakthrough chemotherapy drugs are now winning the war on cancer. The statistics show a very different story. Here’s how the major new chemotherapy drugs fare. http://www.wddty.com/news-focus.html http://www.wddty.com/news-focus.html Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Now that we re rid of those vitamins The European Union is keen to bolster the profits of cash strapped pharmaceutical companies Having successfully banned hundreds of alternative remedies the... http://www.wddty.com/news-drugs-for-children.html http://www.wddty.com/news-drugs-for-children.html Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Menactra, one of the two meningitis vaccines available in the US, may cause Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a serious neurological disorder. http://www.wddty.com/news-meningitis.html http://www.wddty.com/news-meningitis.html Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health A heart patient can look forward to an invasive package of drugs, early coronary angiography and revascularisation. http://www.wddty.com/news-heart-caren.html http://www.wddty.com/news-heart-caren.html Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health How much radiation can a human being face before it becomes a carcinogen? http://www.wddty.com/radiation-it-s-worse-than-you-were-told.html http://www.wddty.com/radiation-it-s-worse-than-you-were-told.html Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health The idea of a link between inadequate vitamin A and hearing disorders was initially treated with suspicion reflected by its being confined to animal studies and observations But it was resurrected 1... http://www.wddty.com/qanda-tinnitus-and-syringing.html http://www.wddty.com/qanda-tinnitus-and-syringing.html Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health The US drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has approved a new booster shot of the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccine, even though it is the vaccine with the most reported side-effects, according to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system. http://www.wddty.com/booster-vaccine-one-jab-too-many.html http://www.wddty.com/booster-vaccine-one-jab-too-many.html Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health sebaceous cysts, epidermoid cysts, skin growths, acupuncture, star points, Vitex agnus castus, expulsion, reabsorption, benzoyl peroxide, herbal poultice, homoeopathy, Silicea, Echinacea http://www.wddty.com/qanda-sebaceous-cysts_1.html http://www.wddty.com/qanda-sebaceous-cysts_1.html Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health Why do people get cancer? With 500,000 Americans and 100,000 Britons dying of the disease every year, it’s a fair-enough question. Unfortunately, medicine is concerned more with treating it - with an array of deadly drugs and extreme surgery - than with understanding its origins. http://www.wddty.com/main-feature_1.html http://www.wddty.com/main-feature_1.html Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health A recent study has revealed that pins are more effective than casts in healing fractures of the femur in children A group of 101 children aged 4 to 10 years who were admitted to one of four paedia... http://www.wddty.com/femoral-fractures-pins-better-than-casts.html http://www.wddty.com/femoral-fractures-pins-better-than-casts.html Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health