http://www.wddty.com/drugs-and-side-effects en-gb http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 20 We all know – don’t we? – that the over-the-counter cough medicines don’t do much to help fight our children’s coughs. So it’s not an enormous leap of logic to conclude that they don’t do much for us adults either. http://www.wddty.com/cough-medicine-it-doesn-t-work-for-you-or-the-kids.html http://www.wddty.com/cough-medicine-it-doesn-t-work-for-you-or-the-kids.html Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:20:00 GMT Health Doctors and the public may have been misled about the effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. They have both been victims of spin that researchers have put on their findings in order to present the drugs in the best possible light. http://www.wddty.com/antidepressants-they-re-not-as-effective-as-we-re-told-after-researchers-suppress-the-bad-studies.html http://www.wddty.com/antidepressants-they-re-not-as-effective-as-we-re-told-after-researchers-suppress-the-bad-studies.html Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:26:00 GMT Health Every year doctors write out £7bn (US$13.9bn) worth of prescriptions for a drug group that’s designed to treat stomach acid and other digestion problems. And in up to 70 per cent of cases they’re wrong to do so. http://www.wddty.com/digestion-drug-why-so-many-people-take-it-and-so-few-need-it.html http://www.wddty.com/digestion-drug-why-so-many-people-take-it-and-so-few-need-it.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:52:00 GMT Health Pfizer are back in the dock again, this time for testing an experimental drug on children during a deadly meningitis outbreak. The drug giant faces a fine of $9bn (£.4.5bn) if it is found guilty of the charge. http://www.wddty.com/drug-trials-drug-co-accused-of-using-critically-ill-children-as-guinea-pigs.html http://www.wddty.com/drug-trials-drug-co-accused-of-using-critically-ill-children-as-guinea-pigs.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:43:00 GMT Health An American psychiatrist is giving his services for free in what he describes as his “march of shame” after he became an unwitting cog in Wyeth’s marketing machine for its antidepressant Effexor (venlafaxine). http://www.wddty.com/pushing-antidepressants-psychiatrist-does-march-of-shame.html http://www.wddty.com/pushing-antidepressants-psychiatrist-does-march-of-shame.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:35:00 GMT Health Just three drugs are responsible for a third of all serious adverse reactions among the elderly. The drugs – warfarin, insulin and digoxin – were 35 times more dangerous than the other 41 drugs identified as being likely to be hazardous to older people. http://www.wddty.com/the-3-most-dangerous-drugs-they-cause-a-third-of-all-adverse-reactions-in-the-elderly.html http://www.wddty.com/the-3-most-dangerous-drugs-they-cause-a-third-of-all-adverse-reactions-in-the-elderly.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:57:00 GMT Health Avandia, the best-selling diabetes drug, has had the final nail driven into its coffin. It’s just as dangerous as everyone feared, a new study has concluded, and can dramatically increase the risks of congestive heart failure and fatal heart attack. http://www.wddty.com/avandia-new-study-confirms-it-s-a-high-risk-drug.html http://www.wddty.com/avandia-new-study-confirms-it-s-a-high-risk-drug.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:39:00 GMT Health GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the drug company, threatened to either sue or ruin the career of a medical researcher who spoke out against its diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone). http://www.wddty.com/drug-secrecy-gsk-threatened-career-of-whistle-blower.html http://www.wddty.com/drug-secrecy-gsk-threatened-career-of-whistle-blower.html Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:33:00 GMT Health A new ‘stop smoking’ drug is making users feel suicidal. So far the UK’s drug monitoring body, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA), has received 839 reports of adverse reactions to the drug, Campix, which was launched last year. http://www.wddty.com/stop-smoking-drug-it-makes-you-feel-suicidal.html http://www.wddty.com/stop-smoking-drug-it-makes-you-feel-suicidal.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:56:00 GMT Health Drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (annual sales: $17.9bn) is “proud of its commitment to conduct business with the highest standards of integrity in its mission to extend and enhance human life”, according to a spokesman. http://www.wddty.com/drug-payouts-pharma-giant-caught-paying-doctors.html http://www.wddty.com/drug-payouts-pharma-giant-caught-paying-doctors.html Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:55:00 GMT Health A drug that has been considered too dangerous for use in America and Canada is still freely available in the UK. http://www.wddty.com/danger-drug-banned-cox-2-still-available-in-uk.html http://www.wddty.com/danger-drug-banned-cox-2-still-available-in-uk.html Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:29:00 GMT Health Viagra, the famed impotence drug, can cause sudden hearing loss. So far around 29 users have reported the problem to America’s drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is now adding the warning to the drug’s packaging. http://www.wddty.com/viagra-come-again.html http://www.wddty.com/viagra-come-again.html Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:20:00 GMT Health Common over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin kill around 20,000 Americans every year, and another 100,000 end up in hospital as a result of taking the drug, new research reveals. http://www.wddty.com/aspirin-it-kills-20-000-americans-every-year.html http://www.wddty.com/aspirin-it-kills-20-000-americans-every-year.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:49:15 GMT Health Flu shots for the elderly are far less effective than doctors, and governments, like to tell us. In fact, they are incapable of preventing up to half of all deaths from influenza and pneumonia in the elderly, new data suggests. http://www.wddty.com/flu-shots-they-don-t-protect-the-elderly-new-data-reveals.html http://www.wddty.com/flu-shots-they-don-t-protect-the-elderly-new-data-reveals.html Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:36:00 GMT Health Vaccine manufacturers have paid out nearly $2bn in damages to parents in America whose children were harmed by one of the childhood jabs such as the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) or DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus). http://www.wddty.com/vaccine-damage-parents-receive-2bn-compensation-pay-outs.html http://www.wddty.com/vaccine-damage-parents-receive-2bn-compensation-pay-outs.html Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:03:00 GMT Health What really goes on in medical trials? Are the results really as they seem, and is the drug that is being tested as effective- and safe - as the manufacturer claims? http://www.wddty.com/drug-trials-nobody-checks-nobody-knows.html http://www.wddty.com/drug-trials-nobody-checks-nobody-knows.html Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:53:00 GMT Health More teenagers are taking their own lives – but coroners may be failing to recognise that antidepressants are to blame, an expert says. http://www.wddty.com/teenage-suicides-are-antidepressants-the-unrecognized-cause.html http://www.wddty.com/teenage-suicides-are-antidepressants-the-unrecognized-cause.html Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:40:00 GMT Health The annual rates of serious adverse reactions and deaths from a prescribed drug have almost tripled since 1998. http://www.wddty.com/drug-reactions-deaths-and-serious-problems-triple-in-8-years.html http://www.wddty.com/drug-reactions-deaths-and-serious-problems-triple-in-8-years.html Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:24:00 GMT Health