Osteoporosis is the world’s most common chronic bone disease. Characterized by increased bone fragility, it is seen in all age groups, genders, and races. It is […]
NEWS Doctors in the UK are being told to make their letters easier for patients to understand. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says correspondence often […]
A new study from Australia has linked use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs with a significantly increased risk of idiopathic inflammatory myositis, a serious muscle disease that […]
NEWS New research from Spain has further lowered the credibility of statins, finding they are not effective at reducing heart disease and strokes in old or […]
NEWS Health authorities in England have agreed to make a leukemia treatment with a colossal price tag of $361,750 per patient available for children. COMMENT Predictably […]
NEWS A study published in the British Medical Journal has found that the commonly used painkiller diclofenac, a so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), is associated with […]
Written in November 2017 and May 2018, blog posts by Dr. Kelvin Stott, Director of Portfolio Management at the Novartis drug company in Basel, Switzerland, caused […]
Vitamin B3 Could Treat Acute Kidney Injury
NEWS A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine suggests that nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a form of vitamin B3 found in all living cells, has […]