Ongoing tracking is meant to spot very rare risks – like the connection between the Johnson & Johnson shot and Guillain-Barré syndrome. And it relies on public reporting.
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Each province and district in South Africa has allocated persons responsible for investigating adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
Side effects generally indicate a natural immune response and will resolve in a few days.
It’s normal for different people to mount stronger or weaker immune responses to a vaccine, but post-shot side effects won’t tell you which you are.
AstraZeneca just announced results from its US-based trial. It found the vaccine to be 79% effective and safe for use, despite recent concerns around reports of blood clots.
Many people are taking glucosamine for their osteoarthritis. But do they really need to stop in light of new safety warnings?
While the probiotics found in fermented foods might have health benefits for most, these foods could cause serious harm to the health of others.
About 470,000 children in the US have epilepsy. Promising advances are being made in the field of epilepsy treatment for children.
There’s more to antibiotics than meets the eye.
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams could help cancer survivors to recover from the toxic side-effects of their treatments and return to their lives.
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.
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…
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