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Bad Medicine

Fake drugs can make you ill or kill you even if you don’t take them. And they’re everywhere

The manufacture and distribution of medicines is a global industry, tainted by fake and substandard products.

Srinath Perur, Mosaic
· Nov 04, 2018 · 02:30 pm
The hype over vitamin D deficiency is causing toxic overdoses in people taking it as supplement

While vitamin D treatment still has a rare medical role in severe deficiency or those bed bound, the rest of us should avoid being ‘treated’ with this steroid.

Tim Spector, The Conversation
· Sep 09, 2018 · 03:45 pm
Indian health ministry’s ill-informed advice on depression draws protests from doctors

Doctors want a health ministry poster to be withdrawn.

Priyanka Vora
· Jun 27, 2018 · 07:49 pm

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