What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ: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 ...
If mammography is far from being an exact science, the interpretation of the x-rays by radiologists is more an amateur art form. ...
Gut hunches ... ...
Q:I have had a cyst growing on my left testicle for over three years and have wondered whether surgical removal would be advisable. Can you offer me some advice? AW, London....... ...
High quality mammograms are often misread and misinterpreted even by very experienced radiologists, according to research by Yale University School of Medicine (JAMA, 26 May 1993). ...
Inflammatory bowel disease mimics many other similar diseases and disease processes. Before entering into a course of powerful drugs which may cause further distressing symptoms, patients may want ...
Reader's Corner
Early diagnostic tests for prostate cancer are so unreliable that doctors would do better to assess the risk through family medical history, cancer experts have suggested. ...
One of the most overlooked causes of disease is not just what we eat but how well we digest it, particularly in our small intestine. ...
Clinical diagnosis of ADHD in children is inexact.' - Statement from the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 19 June 2001
