PSA (prostate specific antigen) screening may be unable to detect prostate cancer, some scientists believe. More men who were screened died from prostate cancer compared with those who were not, ...
Studies are beginning to highlight the importance of sunlight as a cancer fighter, yet those of us who live in Northern Europe get virtually no sunlight for up to six months of the year. While we can supplement with vitamin D, is a UVA sunbed a good...
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While evidence is thin on the ground for many other alternative therapies, lymphoma has been shown to respond to heat treatment. .. ...
Many of us believe that vegetarianism gives us the healthiest diet. ...
Vitamin E is an antioxidant that enhances immune function, and protects against cancer, heart disease, diabetic retinopathy and kidney disease. Very high doses (1800 IU/day) may reverse diabetic retinopathy and kidney disease. Vitamin C, another...
As we've been pointing out for the past five years, prostate screening cannot prevent cancer, and may even be doing more harm than good. ...
I am very interested in osteoporosis and the andropause. I read that antiresorptive drugs, such as palmidronate, are actually counter-productive for bone density.-HB, Wilton........ ...
One 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. ...

