A coroner has issued a second warning about prescribing a popular antibiotic to patients already on cholesterol-lowering drugs after details of another death caused by a rare but potentially fatal interaction between them emerged yesterday.

A MAN died after a toxic reaction between one of the world’s most popular cholesterol lowering drugs and a common antibiotic triggered a deadly muscle-wasting disease.

I DISAGREE with the views expressed by Professor Paul Finucane regarding medical school admission (Opinion, September 5).