In May 2012 Dr Fox commissioned a survey of 2000 women regarding Unprotected Sex particularly when on holiday – the results were surprising and widely reported in the national media including The Sun, Daily Star, Mail Online, More magazine and others, plus many more online news and blog sites.
Health News
Health news articles from Dr Fox covering medical, pharmaceutical, wellness, and topical subject areas.
Smoking cessation is a growing industry
In recent years, many countries including the UK have taken significant action to try and reduce the number of people who smoke. One of the first major steps came in 2003, when tobacco advertising was banned. A few years later in 2007, it became illegal to smoke in public buildings.
Now the UK is taking further action and introduced a ban in April 2012 to stop shops from displaying cigarettes, similar to bans that already exist in some other countries such as Iceland and Norway. One of the aims of the display ban is to try and make cigarettes less tempting to young people but while it has many supporters, some have taken objection to the action. For instance, some small retailers and big tobacco firms are against the ban as they think it could harm business. Read in full
Comment: let’s not worry about fake online drugs
Comment on article: “Let’s Not Worry About Fake Online Drugs”
This interesting article by Felix Salmon deals with a research paper entitled “In Whom We Trust: The Role of Certification Agencies in Online Drug Markets”.
Research carried out in the US by Roger Bate, Ginger Zhe Jin and Aparna Mathur, and published in March 2012 concluded that, apart from Viagra bought from completely unregulated overseas websites, other medicines bought online were likely to be 100% genuine.
Researchers tested the authenticity of 370 samples bought from 41 online pharmacies, both regulated and unregulated, and found that they were all genuine, except for Viagra bought from a minority of completely unregulated overseas sites. Read in full
Study: Varenicline reduces relapse rates
An April 2012 article in the GP magazine Pulse All smokers should be put on varenicline, says QIPP analysis highlights research commissioned by NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) which suggests varenicline taken for 12 weeks after smoking cessation reduces relapse rates more than alternative medicines.
Private prescriptions
A private prescription is like any other prescription for medication written by a doctor, except that private prescriptions are not funded by the NHS.
Private prescriptions are written by doctors in private practice, and by NHS doctors for medication which the NHS will not pay for.
The NHS does not fund travel medication, such as malaria tablets, and restricts quantities of some other medicines. The NHS will usually fund a supply of generic drugs only to treat male impotence. Read in full
Customer Satisfaction Survey 2012
Dr Fox has recently undertaken an independent customer satisfaction survey, the results of which have been very encouraging.
98% of people were either ‘extremely happy’ (78.5%) or ‘very happy’ (19.3%) with the service and 93% said they were ‘very likely’ or ‘extremely likely’ to use the service again.
The full survey results are available to view here.
We would like to thank those customers that took the time to respond to our survey. Read in full
Viagra – the drug that changed the world
Viagra was developed and is marketed by the Pfizer pharmaceutical company and has been available for use since 1998. The active ingredient is Sildenafil citrate, a PDE5 inhibitor, which increases the flow of blood to the penis to aid men suffering from erectile dysfunction (impotence) achieve and maintain an erection.
Since it was introduced to the market in 1998 the rise of Viagra has been a worldwide phenomenon, helping millions of men suffering from erectile dysfunction and also spawning similar drugs and many third world counterfeit suppliers.
It was the drug that transformed the sexual landscape. Before Viagra, impotence meant shame and often the collapse of all but the most committed relationships. The discovery of its startling ability to restore men’s faded sexual function triggered a social revolution as monumental as that caused by the contraceptive pill.
Ten years on: it’s time to count the cost of the Viagra revolution, The Guardian, 24 February 2008
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British patients click online to see doctor
The Dr Fox online clinic featured in a widely seen press article in 2010. The journalist, Maria Cheng of Associated Press, has done excellent research on online medicine.
The article entitled British patients click online to see doctor included the following: Read in full