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• Know your painkillers
• Statins: the case for and against
• Drug shows promise for MND
• Drugs on trial

 

Medicines and supplements in the news

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• Can this drug stop Alzheimer's in its tracks?
• Statins may help protect against dementia

 

More medicines and supplements

• "Why I volunteered for a breast cancer drug trial"

• A statin for 'healthy' people?

• Arthritis Pain Patch

• Aspirin may help women live longer

• Can this drug stop Alzheimer's in its tracks?

• Clot drug offers hope to thousands

• Combined statin drug concern

• Common gene variant explains rare statin side effect

• Depression: the facts about antidepressants

• Diabetes: when treatment is a pain

• Dietary Supplement may improve your golf swing

• Do statins raise the risk of Parkinson's?

• Doctor knows best when it comes to heart disease medication

• Doubts raised on cholesterol-busting drugs

• Drugs on trial

• Early treatment for Parkinson's

• Fake medicines warning for men

• Fiery solution to pain

• Folic acid may protect your hearing

• Free prescriptions for cancer patients; smoker's cough; £10 Tesco flu jab; call a pharmacist; rural medicine revamp

• Ginkgo offers no protection against Alzheimer’s

• HRT for women entering menopause is safe, after all

• Ibuprofen may cut dementia risk

• Insulin pill may allow people with diabetes to ditch the needle

• Know your painkillers

• Lithium offers hope to people with MND

• Living with chronic pain

• Netting the little blue pill safely

• New breast cancer drugs: who can benefit?

• News from the pharmacy

• NICE go ahead for arthritis drug

• Parkinson's drug hope

• Parkinson’s linked to vitamin D deficiency

• Pharmacy news August 2008

• Pharmacy news June 2008

• Pharmacy News March 08

• Pharmacy news: are you taking these medications?

• Pharmacy news: weight loss drug; Viagra; Panadol; osteoporosis drus; cold vs flu; medicine related problems

• Pharmacy update May 2008

• Pharmacy update September 2008

• Pill offers hope for MS sufferers

• Prostate cancer breakthrough

• Red yeast rice and cholesterol

• Rheumatoid arthritis cure - only a jab away?

• Sex, love and Viagra

• Single pill cuts diabetes complications

• Snoring pill

• Statin may halve Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s risk

• Statins

• Statins and side effects

• Statins can cut diabetes risk

• Statins cut blood pressure

• Statins may protect against dementia

• Study backs echinacea to control colds

• The case against statins

• The case in favour of statins

• The pill gives lasting protection against ovarian cancer

• The statin debate

• Understanding drug interactions

• Understanding probiotics

• UV light offers ray of hope for cancer sufferers

• Viagra - the facts

• Vitamin B1 may prevent diabetes complications

• Vitamin D deficiency linked to back pain in women

• Vitamin D supplements may boost life expectancy

• Vitamins ‘do not prevent prostate cancer’

• Wet AMD drug news

• When juice and drugs don't mix

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