Only this week the Government admitted that over 100 Primary Care Trusts are in the red so how can we be sure that they
Posted in General on 02. Sep, 2010
“Only this week the Government admitted that over 100 Primary Care Trusts are in the red, so how can we be sure that they have enough money for Herceptin? “There are existing drugs, approved by Nice, not funded by some health trusts, and it is vital that Herceptin is not added to this list. “It would be the unkindest cut of all to raise women’s hopes only to dash them yet again.”. I have just been prescribed a statin drug to reduce my cholesterol. The list of side effects on the package seems to mention nearly all the symptoms that humans can suffer from. How many people do get side effects?
Dr Fred Kavalier answers your health question:
The great majority of people who take statins (simvastatin, pravastatin, atorvastatin, and others) experience no side effects at all. There is one serious side effect to look out for – muscle pain, tenderness or weakness.
In my experience it is very rare, but it is important because it can be a sign of serious muscle damage. A few people will get stomach upsets, and a few will get rashes The only thing to look out for is muscle problems. If these occur, stop the tablets and see your doctor pretty smartly.Please mail your questions for Dr Fred to health independent.co.uk. He regrets that he is unable to respond personally to questions..
It happens in dreams It’s an old stage trick. You thought you were watching a
play, but somehow it seems that you’ve crossed over, you’ve moved from the
audience to the stage, from reality into fiction, and now you’re part of the
play, and even though you don’t know your lines, the play seems to
accommodate you and incorporate you and carry you along with its action, and
finally, there’s no escape, you try to break out, to hold back the plot, but
you’re caught up in it, and you must stay in the drama to its end.
That’s how it often goes in dreams, at least. There are plays, too – from
Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle to Tom Stoppard’s
The Real Inspector Hound – that take up this idea of audience participation. Characters, representing audience members, climb on to the stage and enter
the drama. Sometimes, these spectator-characters get helplessly sucked in. Sometimes, on the other hand, they aggressively take over.
The participation device can go either way, and it highlights the ambiguous
power-relationship that exists in general between audience and stage.