What Doctors Don't Tell YouJust as we are advised to watch our blood pressure as we get older, the pressure within our eyes is equally at risk with advancing years. Changes in the ageing eye can lead to less-effective drainage of the clear fluid (aqueous humor) in the eye...
Q I have been prescribed Arimidex for a recurrence of cancer in a lymph node. Tamoxifen failed to stop the growth. Can you give me any information about this drug
Having read your booklet Guide to Asthma and Eczema, I feel I should write to you about something you wrote on page 23.
When a single drug doesn’t sort out a health issue, doctors tend to throw two at the problem. So medicine came up with the idea of hypertensive drug ‘teams’. A firm favourite is a thiazide diuretic (the oldest mainstay of hypertension treatment)...
OTITIS MEDIA
Try osteopathy before grommets
Osteopathy offers a long-term solution to acute otitis media (AOM), a childhood ear infection usually treated with antibiotics.
Indeed, doctors are becoming increasingly worried about the damage they’re causing to patients’ lungs leading to sickness and death. “Iatrogenic respiratory disease is an important cause of patient morbidity and mortality,” warn doctors at the...
A recent analysis of 37,151 patients receiving atenolol (a long-acting beta-blocker) or metoprolol (a short-acting beta-blocker) in patients aged over 65 undergoing elective surgery found that those given long-acting atenolol had a far lower cardiac...
