What Doctors Don't Tell YouAs breast cancer rates continue to spiral upward (to 185,000 women in the US and 28,000 women in the UK every year), the pressure is on for women, particularly those over 40, to have regular mammograms.
At least one doctor is less than enthusiastic about the fountain of youth hormone drug test being tested on patients over 60. Newcastle upon Tyne consultant endocrinologist Fredrick Clark is criti ...
I would be grateful if you could give me some information on optic neuritis. Nearly two years ago I had an attack of optic neuritis, with a left side weakness and mobility problems. An MRI scan ...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common sight disorder, affecting around 15 million Americans and 5 million Britons. As its name suggests, it's always been associated with the ageing process, and is usually seen in people over the age of...
At least one in 10 elderly people is prescribed a drug they should not be taking - and the true figure could well be twice as bad. Worse, many of the drugs that are being inappropriately prescribed have a high risk of causing side-effects.
I have just been reading over again your excellent article about SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus) (WDDTY vol 7 no 9). About 20 years ago a patient came to me who had been treated for SLE with no ...
Q My husband and I are beginning to show signs of memory loss, which no doubt will get worse with time. We visited a very qualified neurologist,
Our physically active reader last week is tired of changing his t-shirt twice a day. He's looking for an effective antiperspirant that is also nontoxic as he's just recovered from cancer. Do any of our readers have any advice to help him out, he...
Is there an alternative way of dealing with osteoarthritis, specifically spondylitis? As you are no doubt aware, orthodox medicine has no answer. In fact, following an X-ray, which established tha ...
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...
