What Doctors Don't Tell YouOsteoporosis, which means ‘porous bones’, describes any condition that reduces bone mass. Symptoms include leg and foot cramps; height loss; lower-back pain; hip, wrist and spine fractures;
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) of the eye occurs when the cells of the macula - an irregular yellow depression on the center of the retina - becomes damaged and stops functioning.
Nicotine skin patches have been widely sold as the answer to an addiction to smoking. In the UK, you don’t need a prescription to buy them but, in California,
Very high doses of beta carotene supplements may be cancer causing, as two earlier, and controversial studies had concluded. Diets that are rich in foods containing beta carotene do not carry the ...
A recent Danish study adds to the growing body of evidence linking maternal smoking with antisocial behaviour in their offspring. ...
If 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. ...
