Reuters Health Medical News|April 13, 2021 Thiazide diuretics, which are used by many older patients to control blood pressure, are linked to increased risk of certain skin cancers in a new Canadian study. The analysis of data from more than 300,000 Ontario adults aged 66 and older revealed that prolonged use of thiazides, including hydrochlorothiazide, […]

March 28, 2018 Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology TAKE-HOME MESSAGE This retrospective study sought to determine if hydrochlorothiazide use was linked to the development of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) or squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), the nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSC). Researchers examined data from the Danish Cancer Registry from 2004 to 2012 and the […]