Dengan begitu banyak jenis yang berbeda di luar sana, sulit untuk mengetahui obat tidur apa yang aman untuk digunakan. Berikut ini adalah panduannya.
- Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
Opioids are the one of the most prescribed pain-relief for people with low back and neck pain. But new research shows they don’t effectively relieve low back or neck pain and can result in worse pain.
Plasma therapy sounded great at the start of the pandemic. Give COVID patients blood plasma from people who had recovered. But the evidence is in. It doesn’t work.
Side-effects for this unproven and potentially dangerous treatment range from vomiting and diarrhoea to seizures and a coma.
Investigations have led to the withdrawal of a study backing ivermectin to treat COVID-19. But that’s not the last time we’ll hear about this controversial drug.
Common and cheap drugs save lives of patients critically ill with COVID-19, a new analysis shows. But these corticosteroids are not a cure.
The head lice drug ivermectin is being touted as a coronavirus killer. But studies suggest it would need to be taken in mega-doses far higher than those currently used, with unknown side-effects.
People taking hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus may be more likely to die, according to new research. But that doesn’t mean the drug is killing them.
Obat pembasmi kutu rambut Ivermectin berhasil menghentikan berlipatgandanya SARS CoV-2, virus yang menyebabkan COVID-19, dalam uji klinis. Tapi kita belum tahu apakah ia akan berhasil sebagai obat bagi penderita coronavirus.
The head lice drug Ivermectin has stopped SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from replicating in lab tests. But we don’t know if it will work as a treatment for people with coronavirus.
The convenience of digital consultations can be compelling. But these services aren’t without risk – especially when people don’t interact directly with a health-care professional.
Le mal des transports peut être sérieusement incapacitant. Mais il existe des solutions pour l’éviter, ou le maîtriser une fois qu’il s’est manifesté.
Motion sickness can make you feel pretty wretched. But there are a few things you can do to try and prevent it, or to treat it once it takes hold.
A greater number of medicines may soon be available without a prescription. Under the right circumstances, this would mean you could bypass the doctor and access the treatments you need more quickly.
Hay tal variedad de somníferos que es difícil saber cuáles son fiables. Aquí una guía.
With so many different types out there, it’s hard to know what sleep medications are safe to use. Here’s a guide.
While PPS is approved in oral capsule form to treat bladder inflammation, it is not yet approved as in injection for knee and bone problems. But AFL players have been given special access.
Prescriptions of the drug pregabalin to treat sciatica have skyrocketed in recent years. But a new study shows it brings only side effects, and not relief for sufferers.
Taking multiple medicines strongly increases the risk of unwanted side effects such as drowsiness, dizziness, confusion, falls and injuries and even hospitalisations.
Many suspect Van Gogh suffered from foxglove extract overdose due to the yellow halos in his paintings and his portrait of his physician holding the plant.
Paracetamol is one of the most widely used medicines in Australia and around the world with millions of doses administered worldwide each day.
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