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Fast access to new medicines shouldn’t mean endangering our health

Agencies like the US Food and Drug Administration speed the approval of some drugs to address urgent needs, but there are signs that the balance between safety and speed isn’t quite right

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Fast access to new medicines shouldn’t mean endangering our health

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Why the medicine you take could actually be bad for your health

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Why the medicine you take could actually be bad for your health

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There is little evidence that cannabis helps mental health problems

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How aspirin became a wonder drug against heart disease and cancer

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How aspirin became a wonder drug against heart disease and cancer

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Drug cocktail seems to reverse biological signs of ageing in people

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A variety of CBD health products are in the shops - do they work?

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A variety of CBD health products are in the shops - do they work?

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Ebola breakthrough: two drugs could treat up to 90 per cent of cases

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Ibuprofen has been linked to changes in bacteria in a lab experiment

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Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread

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Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments

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Gene-silencing drug for rare hereditary disorder approved for NHS use

A therapy that uses RNA interference to treat the rare condition hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis has been approved for NHS use in England

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Amyloidosis involves the build-up of sticky protein

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Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy?

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A drug may prevent Alzheimer’s but there are no plans to find out

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A generic drug from Argentina offers cystic fibrosis families hope

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How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution

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