Q Having congratulated myself on sailing through the menopause with no hot flushes, I now find myself struck down with vaginal atrophy.
The maverick practice of off-label prescribing - giving drugs for unapproved conditions/patients - is once again in the limelight. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning against using ‘atypical antipsychotics’ to treat...
A UK government leaflet alerting doctors to the ineffectiveness of grommets for persistent glue ear (chronic otitis media with effusion) is credited with the consistent decrease in their use over the last 15 years.
A possible link has been found between the use of non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and the development of invasive group A streptococcal diseases such as necrotizing facilitis (the ...
Reader's Corner
Readers’ letters
Glue ear that most common of childhood conditions may be caused by allergy, according to a growing body of opinion. ...
Two recently released studies which crossed my desk this month make a telling statement about the way that the West has chosen to care for small children in the late Twentieth century. ...
Aspirin: no surprise there, then
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