They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, so there’s reason to be sceptical when one is on offer. Drug Manufacturers are employing a new strategy called Patient Familiarisation Programs, in which patients are being provided with free drugs. Sound like a good...
How to prevent the health care system from injuring you While medications and medical technology have enormous potential to help people, they also injure tens of thousands of people every year because of side effects or being used in the wrong way. The knowledge...
Every year millions of people suffer adverse medicines events that lead to harm, hospitalisation and sometimes even death, and the worst thing is that most of these events are preventable. It’s important you know what you’re taking, why you’re taking it and how to...
Pharmacogenomics is the ethnical term for the way individuals respond to medicines depending on their genes. It has the potential to save money and also to save lives, and for people for cancer it could identify the treatment that can kill the cancer before the cancer...
Professor Erik Eliasson from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden suggests the weather may be a factor in determining how well medications work. The answer may be in our vitamin D levels, which go up in summer and down in winter, and could have major health implications...
Most people think of medicines as a pill given to you by your doctor – but medicines come in all forms and it’s important to know not only what you’re taking but why you’re taking it. Tonic’s Consumer Affairs reporter Karen Carey explains what constitutes a medicine...
