Ageing populations and efforts to medicate to prevent disease are both factors that have driven up the use of pharmaceuticals, but we have inadequate means of reporting side effects.
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Don’t mix your statins with grapefruit, or leafy green vegetables with warfarin.
Sleeping tablets such as Ambien can have serious side effects.
A trial of methylprednisolone in kidney patients was halted recently because of safety concerns. But this doesn’t affect people taking the drug for asthma, arthritis or other inflammatory conditions.
Many men live with prostate cancer rather than die from it. Here’s the evidence for why they shouldn’t jump to surgery.
Some people can feel drowsy or can’t concentrate days after an operation. While it’s easy to blame the anaesthetics, the real picture is usually more complicated.
Getting the right amount of radiation is a fine balance between therapy and harm. A common way to improve the benefit-to-cure ratio is to fire multiple beams at the tumour from different directions.
Herbal remedies can be dangerous, but so can drugs approved by the FDA.
Media reports have emerged of psychotic episodes in children brought about by a common asthma medication.
Recent German research found that more than 70% of people with cancer supplement their regular hospital treatment with complementary and alternative medicine. More worryingly, many do so without advising…
When a drug returns more than a billion dollars in sales, it hits blockbuster status. So, notching up over US$11 billion in 2011 antidepressants are bona fide showstoppers. But these little pills have…
Australian and American scientists have found a way to halt a reaction in the brain that causes the side effects of morphine, potentially laying the groundwork for more effective therapeutic drugs. The…
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese Herbal Medicine and Medicinal Plant Science, University of Westminster
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Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer (Complementary Medicines) Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor and NHMRC Australian Fellow, Medicine, University of Sydney
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Pathologist, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, NICD, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Bioethics, Monash University
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Honorary Fellow, Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Unit, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
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Professor in Clinical Pharmacy, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice and Digital Public Health, Kingston University
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Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, AMREP Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne & Senior Medical Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician, Melbourne Oncology Group, Cabrini Haematology and Oncology Centre, Wattletree Road, Malvern, Monash University
