Concerns over risks and benefits of stroke drug
A Lancet article says there are problems with clinical trial data for alteplase, a frontline medicine given to up to 20 per cent of those suffering strokes in England every year.
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The Conservatives and Lib Dems clash on drugs policy as a new Home Office reports finds that criminalising abuse has no impact.
One of Mexico’s most wanted men, Servando “La Tuta” Gomez – leader of the notorious Knights Templar drug cartel – issues a recording saying he regrets his life of crime, but will not be taken alive.
As a study suggests teenage cannabis users risk “impairing” their educational ability, a leading researcher claims young people are being let down by media reporting on the dangers of drugs.
Popular among East African communities, the amphetamine-like drug khat was outlawed in the UK in June. Channel 4 News joined police in a crackdown on sellers.
A Lancet article says there are problems with clinical trial data for alteplase, a frontline medicine given to up to 20 per cent of those suffering strokes in England every year.
There are some phone calls which brighten up your day. I have just had one of those. It was from Nils Nordal and he was phoning from his hospital bed in the Royal Free, north London.
Government drugs policy turns addicts into criminals, the Lib Dems say. They’ll promise at the next election to stop jailing people for possession of drugs – spending the money on treatment instead.
As patients criticise the decision not to approve breast cancer drug Kadcyla, Dr Rav Seeruthun, spokesman for drug company Roche, dismisses criticism of its high price, and damns the approval process.
One of two women jailed for smuggling £1.5m worth of cocaine to Spain is due to be transferred to a prison in Northern Ireland.
British teenagers are smoking, drinking and taking drugs less than ever before, according to new figures.
The health effects of sugar – and its presence in so much of our food and drink has been steadily rising up the political agenda. And one of the men responsible for that is Professor Robert Lustig.
The World Cup kicks off in Brazil on Thursday in what promises to be a festival of colour. But the country has a darker side of drug addiction and child exploitation, as Mark Williams-Thomas reports.
Britain’s economy will get a £10bn boost when prostitution and drugs are included in GDP figures. But is there a moral equivalence between such services and sectors like agriculture and publishing?
Access to palliative drugs should be a basic human right. Yet the World Health Organisation says six rich countries consumer 80 per cent of the world’s morphine.
The award-winning film, Heli, that shocked Cannes uncovers the drugs crisis in Mexico which has taken 100,000 lives in the last seven years. Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets its director Amat Escalante.