Fake Medicines Ravels in African Continent Killing Thousands - WHO

Fake medicines bring about some 100,000 deaths a year in the continent, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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How your genes influence what medicines are right for you

Most people have a preference because they have learned over time that one works better than the other at relieving their pain.

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Aspirin May Help Older Colon Cancer Patients Live Longer

Older adults with colon cancer who were prescribed a daily aspirin were less likely to die than those who weren't, according to a new study.

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Arthritis, alternative medicine and water therapy

Considering the treatment of arthritis (osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis) it is important that we remind ourselves of the possible causes and risk factors of these diseases.

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Hormone Drugs Don’t Harm Brain for Some Menopausal Women

Hormone therapy doesn’t appear to have a harmful effect on cognitive function in younger postmenopausal women, according to a study that also showed the treatment didn’t benefit the brain.
Women 50 to 55 years old who were given estrogen or estrogen plus progestin had similar scores on tests of memory and other mental processes as those taking a placebo, according to research published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Does Mental Illness Really Exist?

It has the distinctly uncatchy, abbreviated title DSM-5, and is known to no one outside the world of mental health.

But, even before its publication a week on Wednesday, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychiatry’s dictionary of disorders, has triggered a bitter row that stretches across the Atlantic and has fuelled a profound debate about how modern society should treat mental disturbance.

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