Health news articles from Dr Fox covering medical, pharmaceutical, wellness, and topical subject areas.
Dr Fox recently reached 1,000,000 prescription orders and to mark this milestone have donated £2,000 each to 5 local charities in Bristol that help the homeless, to support them in their work.
Read in fullIndex Medical Ltd is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Following an inspection 16 April 2019 by a team from the CQC the final report was published 04 June 2019 which rated the service ‘Good’ on all 5 aspects of the inspection framework:
Since July 2021, the CQC inspects services on a monthly basis, focusing on safety and how effective a service is led.
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Dr Fox regularly price checks other online clinics and consistently finds evidence to support our claims. In fact, our prices are often less than 50% of other clinics.
Price comparison tables are displayed on popular treatment pages, and below are selected examples.
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We are all familiar with ‘best-before’ and ‘use-by’ dates on food. Medicines are very similarly labelled.
If you look at the packet of your most recent medication, you will see stamped on it somewhere, an expiry date. But what does this expiry date really mean?
Although generally not recommended, we may sometimes choose to eat certain foods beyond their ‘best before’ date. But can we do the same with medicines?
Is it really necessary to throw away, and waste, unused medicines?
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Not yet. Champix is the only brand name of the drug varenicline currently available in the UK or the EU. Champix was patented in 2006, and remains under patent until September 2021 in the UK/EU – in the USA it is patented until 2020 under the brand name of Chantix, so a generic cannot be legally sold until the patent expires.
The active medical ingredient in Champix is called varenicline. Varenicline is the generic name of the product.
Champix is prescription-only medicine.
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We all know the misery of having a bad cough – and with the cough, we often cough up something nasty – known as sputum.
The press reported this week that since the contraceptive pill was first launched – and this was 60 years ago! – we could have been doing it differently! They also stated that one of the reasons behind this was to please the Pope!
Let’s try and put this medical conundrum into understandable terms, and try to prevent confusion!
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At New Year on 1st January, we set ourselves personal goals for the coming year. Read on and be inspired!
What’s your New Year’s resolution? Listed below are some great ideas for a healthy New Year!
My biology teacher once said to my class at school:
YOU are representative of everything you have ever put into your mouth!
Everything you put in your mouth has consequences – whether it’s food, alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, or drugs/medicines. Read in full
