What Doctors Don't Tell YouOne of the things conventional medicine prides itself on is its diagnoses. But much of the credit goes not to doctors, but to the technologists who have created increasingly sophisticated ways of peering into the human body.
While doctors consider stepping up breast cancer screening, new data has revealed a regularly screened woman who develops cancer is no better off than a victim who had never had a mammogram. ...
Drugs are not always prescribed to treat the condition for which they were originally intended, or for which they earned their original license. The latest to get the ‘off-label’ treatment is that great urban myth Viagra (sildenafil). It...
Last year, four men (all in their 30s) consulted me with urination problems - urgent and abrupt need to go, dribbling, feeble stream - while also complaining of vague discomfort or actual pain seemingly from the urethra. All had been told it was...
New evidence suggests that men with early signs of prostate cancer are being missed because screening techniques are inadequate. ...
Q-I am a 41 year old man. I had a series of bladder infections about a year ago, which is unusual in men. As a result, my doctors suggested that I undergo a series of bowel examinations to look fo ...
* Lung: PET scans are just as accurate as biopsies, with no significant health risks (Appl Radiol, 2003; 32: 9-17).
* Breast: MRI has variable accuracy (60-100 per cent)
A study of a new kind of whizzy radiation treatment had to be aborted when it was found patients were a third more likely to die with the new therapy than with conventional x-ray treatment. ...
Welcome to the 100th issue of What Doctors Don't Tell You. In December 1989, when we finished the first issue of this newsletter in our front bedroom and sent it out to our subscription list, whi ...
They include: * Zinc. This is crucial for regulating more than 100 enzymes. One study found a significant reduction in 5-alpha-reductase activity in rat prostate tissue previously injected with zinc (Andrologia, 1993; 25: 369-75). Another study...
