The month of february is here again when we remind ourselves that heart disease is the number 1 killer of women in the U.S. Many women still don’t know. Of the ones that do, many don’t take it seriously. Heart disease has always been popularly considered a male disease, the stereotype being the middle-aged executive [...]
The drug tegaserod maleate marketed as Zelnorm by Novartis and widely prescribed for irritable bowel syndrome was withdrawn from the US market in March this year by the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration). This was due to a link between Zelnorm and an increase in “ischemic cardiovascular events”, meaning reduced blood supply to some [...]
