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Patient Care: Is Your Doctor Failing You? Help Is At Hand

14/06/13

The lack of proper patient care has been in the news a lot recently. You may have been in a situation where your doctor has told you that you’re not as ill as you think, or he or she may have given you a diagnosis that was way off the mark but you went along [...]

The Natural Solution To Antibiotic Resistance

01/05/13

Antibiotic resistance… “An unfolding catastrophe.” “Approaching a point of no return.” Those are the warnings about antibiotic resistance from the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, who said in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that the world is in danger of returning back to the pre-antibiotic era of the 19th century. That’s putting it mildly, because other [...]

Pradaxa: Profits Put Before Safety

10/04/13

Pradaxa (dabigatran), was approved in October 2011 and is used as an alternative to the blood thinning drug warfarin. It treats a type of irregular heartbeat, called non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) and helps to prevent strokes. Pradaxa outperformed warfarin in clinical trials in reducing the risk of stroke and it also appeared to be safer, [...]

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes… What Next?

03/04/13

Right now, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are considering a programme that would release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys area, in the US. Experimenting with huge insect populations, the birds and animals that eat them and the health of hundreds of thousands of [...]