What Doctors Don't Tell YouNegative pregnancy tests can be misleading, according to a recent report.
A severely dehydrated woman was admitted to hospital with vomiting and vaginal discharge.
It's probably surprising to learn that nausea and vomiting in all its varieties from migraines and hangovers to the after effects of anaesthetics all can stem from the same cause: an overloaded li ...
The nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) - ‘morning sickness’ - is common in early pregnancy. Thought to affect 70-85 per cent of pregnant women (Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2003; 4: CD000145), and often accompanied by tiredness and lethargy...
* Try ginger (Zingiber officinale). Of 30 pregnant women with NVP, 70.4 per cent said they felt better when taking 250 mg of powdered ginger (Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol, 1991; 38: 19-24). Ginger tea, ginger ale or ginger biscuits also help.
The link with your environment Kidney stones are thought to be caused by family heredity or too much calcium. But climate, many unlikely foods, certain supplements and even too little calcium can ...
Many people suffer all their lives with this severe type of headache, which can last for hours or even days. Often starting on one side of the head, it causes severe pain and problems with light.
Meningitis can be a deadly disease, and the chances of recovery are greater the sooner it’s detected. Sadly, most parents know only the tell-tale symptoms - stiff neck, non-blanching rash, drowsiness - seen when the infection has already taken hold.
Dana Ullman MPHSurgery represents conventional medicine at its best and its worst. On the one hand, surgery demonstrates incredibly sophisticated informational and technical advancement, yet on the other hand, it often indicates the inability of physicians and...
Richard Moskowitz MDThe refusal of significant numbers of parents to vaccinate their children has created a sizable group of people needing very much to be studied, and has raised a number of important public health issues. Foremost among them is the fear that a large...
American Institute for Preventive MedicineHere is a list of drugs and other things you should keep at home for self-care. Store them in a handy, dry place, but out of children’s r
