What Doctors Don't Tell YouMore than 10,000 cases of cancer of the prostate, the walnut-sized gland that sits just below the bladder, are diagnosed every year in the UK. It is the second-most common cause of cancer deaths
Doctors who use in-ear infrared devices to take a child’s temperature may be missing fevers that a standard rectal thermometer would have detected.
I have lumpy breasts, but I am loathe to have a mammogram because of doubts about its safety and accuracy. My doctor has recommended that I go for a breast ultrasound scan. What's your view? I'm ...
Thousands of people wrongly believe they are HIV infected because of the standard Western blot test which is giving false positive results in nearly 5 per cent of cases. ...
Over the years, the doctor’s stethoscope has been replaced by whiz-bang gadgetry to assess the functioning of the heart. Although these diagnostic tools are better
Q:My daughter is being pressured by her doctors to have repeated CAT scans. I know there are side effects, but need some ammunition to show the doctors. Can you help? D T, Forest Row..... ...
The medical establishment maintains that HIV antibody tests are 99.5 per cent accurate, but new evidence suggests that a startling array of factors can cause false positive results. ...
The HIV test for detecting AIDS is surrounded by controversy. Leaving aside the arguments about the supposed link between HIV and AIDS - still hotly debated in medical circles - the test
Q:After an MRI scan for my neck I had an appalling claustrophobia (during it), with memory loss. I kept crying shaking, couldn't write, stammered, had nightmares for two weeks afterwards. It was 5 ...
A new type of X-ray scan already being widely used to test for osteoporosis is proving to be very unreliable, doctors in London and Cambridge have discovered. ...
