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Have you ever looked at a tablet and thought it was too big to swallow whole and that cutting it in half would do no harm? Or crushed a pill and mixed it with something tasty to make it easier to swallow? This would seem like a very reasonable thing to do, and indeed a

Energy drinks were first developed by a pharmaceutical company in Japan in 1962 to keep their staff alert and thereby facilitate longer working hours. An Austrian businessman on a trip to Asia in the 1980s realised that there was a gap in the European market for similar products and promptly established the company Red Bull,

There is no doubt about it; we are a nation of coffee lovers. It is estimated that we drink an average of 95 million cups per day in the UK, and that coffee contribute £17.7 billion to the UK economy every year. Second only to water as the world’s leading beverage, it is important to

Statins are the most prescribed drugs in the UK, and little wonder when, if taken correctly, they can be associated with a 50% reduction in the risk of heart attack or stroke over a patient’s lifetime. Like many other cardiovascular drugs, this medication should be taken for life, but studies have shown that only about