Old Drugs, new tricks!

30 December 2010

The drug metformin has been around since the early sixties. Whilst it has been prescribed since that time in the UK and Europe, misplaced concerns about serious side effect of a similar now discontinued drug prevented it being prescribed in the USA until the last decade. Metformin has been shown to reduce cardiovascular mortality compared [...]

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Why did Popeye eat spinach?

23 December 2010

I am sure we all have at one time watched the Popeye cartoons on the television. Popeye is being downtrodden and is just about to be defeated when he opens a can of spinach and suddenly he is rejuvenated full of energy and strength able to fight or run and conquer the evils around him. [...]

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