What Doctors Don't Tell YouDespite medicine's attempts to protect mothers from having Down's babies, the incidence of the condition is going up. It could either be because the tests usually amniocentesis or alpha fetoprote ...
Forget Viagra the great new wonder drug to reach the UK is the new slimming sensation Orlistat. It's already been championed as a wonder drug that will allow people to eat as much as they like, an ...
Doctors helping to deliver a handicapped baby might now be breaking the law. ...
Reader's Corner
Mobile phones are safe or at least that's what the industry would like you to believe. However, a number of new research projects around the world are coming up with disturbing results every possi ...
Interferon a protein produced when the body is infected with a virus exerts a powerful immunosuppressant effect of which hearing loss is one of the major side effects (Lancet, 1994; 343: 1134-5). ...
THE DRUG WORKS: But please don't ask for any proof
Aspirin, often touted as a cheap effective medicine for heart patients, may only be of real benefit to those who have lower systolic blood pressure (SBP). Even so, it is not clear if the potentia ...
Anyone who doubted the idiocy of animal experimentation for medical purposes might ponder the following test which sets out to show if exercise can improve the mind. ...
