Chemical substances given to people intended to cure disease or alleviate symptoms of disease.
Questions tagged [pharmaceutical]
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Are 'wind drops' (active ingredient Simeticone) effective in relieveing wind and colic symptoms?
Marketed under a variety of names in different countries are infant 'wind drops' which have as the active ingredient Simeticone.
This is claimed to work by
helping small trapped gas bubbles join into bigger bubbles, which your baby can easily bring…
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Does BlackRock own 15% of Fox News?
In a recent YouTube live stream by The Grayzone, the hosts, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, stated (~8m:53s) that investment management firms, Vanguard and BlackRock are:
the two largest owners of Pfizer. They’re the two biggest owners of Johnson…
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Did the husbands of Theresa May and Victoria Atkins (then British PM and drugs minister) profit from the sale of medicinal cannabis?
As read in this link:
RT
The cannabis for Epidiolex is being provided from a 45-acre cannabis farm in the UK operated by British Sugar, whose links to Tory ministers were exposed in February when it was reported that Managing Director of British…
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Do African countries using Ivermectin have a better Covid-19 situation?
In the great Ivermectin debate, one frequently mentioned argument on the pro-side is a comparison among African countries. They argue that a set of countries in Africa having significantly lower cases and mortality are the countries with endemic…
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Does access to legal marijuana reduce dependence on opiates and other drugs?
It has recently been reported in several news sources that places where access to marijuana has been legalised have seen significant decreases in the use of other, more dangerous, drugs.
In an article arguing that a more relaxed approach to medical…
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Are people overdosing as part of a "Paracetamol Challenge"?
I'm seeing stories such as this Daily Mail article, claiming that there's a craze amongst teenagers to basically play chicken with paracetamol (acetaminophen).
a dangerous online trend has emerged encouraging young people to take large quantities…
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Is Champix safe?
There are various reports of people feeling depressed and suicidal having taken Champix. What is the truth about this stop-smoking-pill?
The Daily Mail tell the story of a girl who took it and tried to kill herself -…
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Is drug testing done on extremely poor people?
I was told about a book "The Body Hunters: Testings New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients" by Sonia Shah. It was published by The New Press, and it had an approving quote from Publisher's Weekly on the site. (Among others, it also had one from…
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Is this Pfizer’s official Facebook page?
This Facebook page purports to be that of Pfizer, but it contains some unusual posts.
However, there is another Pfizer Pharmaceutical page with a lot more Facebook Likes, so I’m not sure if this is legit or not. The rest of the page seems to be…
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