Stories
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Identifying skin lightening agents in cosmetics
Could your moisturiser be damaging your health? If it contains skin-lightening agents, the answer is yes. But this is an area where consumers definitely do not have the upper hand.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Reprint of Prescription Drug Products; Patient Labeling Requirements – Food and Drug Administration: Department of Health, Education and Welfare (USA)
Date: 1979Reference: PP/CMF/M/1Part of: Fletcher, Charles Montague (1911-1995), epidemiologist- Books
Effects of labeling the "drug-abuser" : an inquiry / by Jay R. Williams.
Williams, Jay R.Date: 1976- Books
Guideline for the uniform labeling of blood and blood components : August 1984 / prepared by Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drugs and Biologics, Office of Biologics Research and Review, in cooperation with the American Blood Commission.
Date: 1984- Books
Bad medicine : the prescription drug industry in the Third World / Milton Silverman, Mia Lydecker, Philip R. Lee.
Silverman, Milton, 1910-1997.Date: 1992- Archives and manuscripts
Cde: Drug Labelling
Date: 1984-1992Reference: SA/WHL/6/10Part of: Women's Health Library: archive