What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ Could you tell me the side effects of the new chickenpox vaccine, which doctors are now recommending for babies? - EH, Santa Fe, NM.
Acyclovir - the standard drug treatment against herpes - is ineffective against recurrent herpes, which is the most common form of the disease. The drug's main benefit is as a 'just-in-case', or prophylactic, remedy.
Doctors still can't agree on whether antibiotics are an effective way of treating acute bronchitis. Worse, they can't even agree on what acute bronchitis is. ...
Growth hormone has been used for more than 30 years with varying degrees of success to treat children of short stature. Surprisingly little research has been done on the long term success of this ...
The pneumonia vaccine is not effective in preventing pneumonia or death, new trials reveal. ...
Most cleft lip and palate operations are less than completely successful, a damning report has revealed. Less than half the children could speak clearly after the operation, two out of five had po ...
I have been considering laser treatment to get rid of a few lines around my mouth. My plastic surgeon would not recommend peeling, but described laser treatment as safe and gave me the name of a c ...
Despite a tireless sales campaign by doctors and the drug industry, half of all women prescribed HRT stop within six months, according to a recent survey by the National Opinions Polls, and four o ...
Patients with low back pain believe they are getting 'good' care if there are sent for X-rays in spite of the fact that the X-ray does nothing to improve their condition. ...
Prozac the "happy drug" to ease depression could soon be called up to treat PMS sufferers as well. ...
