If you spend any length of time in front of a computer, you've probably experienced some form of eye strain, vision headaches or other stress in your visual system. And you're not alone. According to the American Optometric Association, upwards of 8...
More half of all drug prescriptions written in the UK every year are for patients who are aged over 65, a What Doctors Don't Tell You report has discovered. At least 20 per cent of the drugs prescribed are 'inappropriate', either because they are...
FEMORAL FRACTURES: Pins better than casts
Steroids don't take years to damage your system, as doctors maintain. Permanent, crippling damage can occur weeks after you've begun treatment. ... ...
No, memory loss is not inevitable as we age, but we’d be very fortunate to avoid it happening. Memory starts to decline imperceptibly in early adulthood (Alzheim Dis Assoc Disord, 2003; 17: 162-7); by age 65, about 40 per cent of us will have...
Several readers recommended crystal rock sticks last week, but another reader this week suggests they may not be all they seem.
Q:I would be grateful for any help and advice you could offer with regard to an unstable bladder. The hospital doctor I saw for diagnosis many years ago prescribed imipramine. Although it cured th ...
An angiogram is an X-ray test that uses a dye to check the health of your arteries. It’s supposed to check for blockages or restrictions to the blood supply to the heart, and it can herald heart surgery.
The theory that adult health is determined to a significant degree by conditions in the womb before birth has recently been challenged.
Given perfect conditions, human beings are thought to be capable of living a healthy 125 years. Indeed, the oldest recorded human being was a French woman who lived to be 122 years of age (JAMA, 1 ...
Martin Sussman
What Doctors Don't Tell You