Tower Blocks

A two-and-a-half mile route march before last night's supper (spaghetti and meatballs) with The Boys, down into the Eye Brook valley nea...

Self-Dosing Pain Medications - be careful!

Allowing patients to control their own pain medication intravenously is four times more likely to cause the patient harm than other medicati...

New Anti-AIDS pill under development

Scientists are developing an anti-AIDS pill that can be taken before sex and prevent transmission of the deadly disease. The successful dev...

Serevent and Foradil asthma drugs may be risky

The risks of two widely used asthma drugs outweigh their benefits for both children and adults, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory...

Inhaled insulin Exubera may cause lung cancer

US drugmakers Pfizer Inc and Nektar Therapeutics on Wednesday warned of cases of lung cancer in clinical trials of their inhaled insulin Exu...

Viagra’s 10th anniversary

Ten years ago this month the lives of millions of men and women were changed almost overnight by the advent of a little blue pill — the firs...

Free drug samples make you spend more!

Patients who receive free drug samples from their doctors end up having significantly higher out-of-pocket costs for their prescription drug...

Fosamax associated with unusual fractures of the thigh bone

In the latest research to cast a shadow on the safety of a popular bone-strengthening medication, researchers report that long-term use of F...

Tyverb is back in Europe

The European Commission has referred GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s breast cancer treatment Tyverb back for a fresh assessment by drugs regulators f...