April 25, 2011 – A new study conducted by Emily Boyle, researcher and surgeon at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, has shown a connection between a night of drinking and errors made by surgeons during next-day...
Osteoporosis Drug May Cause Atypical Femur Fractures
Health Canada announced on Tuesday that a class of drugs used in Canada for osteoporosis is linked to slightly higher risks of atypical femur fractures, which is rare but serious. If that’s not the definition of irony, I don’t know what is: a...
Will an Aspirin a Day Add Many More Days to Your Life?
A new study was conducted using data from nine clinical trials involving more than 100,000 people who were randomly assigned to either take an aspirin every day or a placebo, for approximately six years. The results were published in the...