What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ: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. ...
White-coat hypertension, where a patient’s fear of the doctor causes his blood pressure to rise higher than it usually is, seems to occur at home as well as in the doctor’s office,
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.
Up to one third of women given a mammogram could suffer the anguish of a false positive where the test incorrectly detects breast cancer and consequently further unnecessary medical intervention, ...
As breast cancer rates continue to spiral upward (to 185,000 women in the US and 28,000 women in the UK every year), the pressure is on for women, particularly those over 40, to have regular mammograms.
* 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)
