date:Nov 30, 2012
3 in 2012.
They include some drugs for a range of conditions including blood pressure, cancer and cholesterol-lowering statins and those taken to suppress the immune system after an organ transplant.
Furanocoumarins, a naturally occurring chemical in grapefruit is responsible for stopping the drugs breaking down, meaning that more medicine than can be tolerated reaches the digestive system.
Three times the levels of one blood pressure drug, felodipine, was reported after patients had a glass