There has been a huge increase in asthma in Western countries since the early 1960s. Asthma currently kills nearly 2000 people a year in England and Wales yet in 1929, Conybeare's Textbook of Medi ...
On page 1 of the January 2002 issue of WDDTY (vol 12 no 10), there is a list of causes of heart arrhythmias. I would like to suggest the possibility of there being one more.
It seemed unimaginable a few years ago. Despite the growing evidence indicating that ME is a distinct clinical entity, and just months after the World Health Organization recognized ME by adding i ...
Smoking and alcohol may be major causes of the skin complaint psoriasis. Smoking seems more likely to trigger it in women, whereas alcohol is more likely to be the cause in men. ...
In your November issue (WDDTY, vol 12 no 8), you featured a patient - MM - who has been diagnosed with Lyme’s disease and who has suffered TIAs.
What, exactly, causes cancer? What mechanism could it be that enables outlaw cells to shut down our immune systems with the flip of a switch and run riot through the house?
Hip and pelvis fractures are a major health worry, especially among older, postmenopausal women. The risk of a fracture rises to 17 per cent in women over the age of 50, and up to 20 per cent of those who suffer such bone fractures die within a year...
Finding the source of eczema, like many other chronic diseases, appears to be a matter of persistent detective work. Don't get discouraged if your first approach doesn't work keep looking until y ...
Concerns that the environment may be affecting fertility seem to be confirmed by a recent study of sperm which discovered that quality has dropped significantly over the last 50 years. ...