What Doctors Don't Tell YouIf doctors have their way, the dire health warnings on the side of cigarette packs might have to be changed. ...
Consider what the theoretical risk factors for pre-eclampsia have in common. These risks include: being blood group AB (J Hum Hyperten, 1995; 9: 623-5), environmental poisons, impaired kidney and/ ...
My mother, who smokes, has been diagnosed as having emphysema. As far as I know, it is in the early stages, but what I have read about conventional treatment (oxygen therapy, drugs to dilate the b ...
Despite recent adverse publicity, beta-carotene does provide an effective safeguard against lung cancer, new research has found. ...
People who suffer from an underactive thyroid are making the condition worse by smoking, researchers have discovered. ...
Did Lamisil cause my high cholesterol? I am 5 foot 3 inches tall, weigh 8 stone 10 pounds, don’t smoke, follow a healthy diet (I am vegetarian most days), take daily supplements and exercise regularly - I even enjoy a five-mile walk at weekends.
An amazing four out of five adults will experience significant low-back pain at some time during their life. The most common reason, say experts, is work-related back injuries, but activities at home and at play can also result in back pain.
Think of lung cancer, and you probably instinctively think of cigarette smoking. But there's another major cause, and it's present in most of our homes - the inert gas radon-222, which occurs naturally from the decay of uranium in the earth's crust...
Coffee drinking can damage your baby even before you get pregnant, according to a Canadian study (JAMA, 22-29 December 1993). ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be set to reclassify nicotine as a drug because it is addictive. If it does, tobacco advertising could be subject to more stringent controls, and ciga ...
