What Doctors Don't Tell YouBedrest, which is often recommended as a therapy for everything from backache to the complications of pregnancy, does not help, and may even hinder, recovery from some illnesses.
Q About a year ago, I was given a spinal injection for a suspected hernia which has left me with a very painful lower back. Have you come across other people with long-term lower-back pain
I was refiling WDDTY vol 15 no 8, when it fell open to page 8, where two headlines are ‘Polycystic problems’ and ‘Chronic cold sores’.
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VACCINATIONS: But do they work at all?
Q How safe are the barcode scanners that our food passes through on the supermarket checkout stand?
Q I have a ganglion cyst on my right wrist that is apparently pressing on a nerve and right over a tendon. It’s too painful to bash with the family bible. I'm due to see a hospital consultant with a view to its being either aspirated or removed.
MS: A treatment too far
Have you any up-to-date information on anastrozole, which I have been taking for two and a half years, following breast cancer in 1996 and lymph-node secondaries in 2002? I sensed some concern regarding this drug on my last check-up, when the...
Many cleaning products these days boast 'antibacterial' agents to 'kill germs', but the benefit of these products is dubious, says new American research.
