What Doctors Don't Tell You'When you find a drug which helps you, do not try and persuade your medical advisor to cut the length of the treatment short. You may find when you take drugs that you improve quickly but do remember that depression is an illness ...'
Proscar (finasteride) is making a return visit as our Drug of the Month, following some sensational revelations. Manufactured by Merck, it has quickly established itself as the treatment of choice ...
Miracle or mayhem? A lot depends on the dose, but there's little medical evidence to support the outrageous claims being made for its powers in humans. ...
Latest clinical trials confirm that implanted cardiac defibrillators do not benefit heart attack patients. ...
A special radiotherapy treatment for brain tumours, hailed as a miracle cure by the British press, is far from that, say two leading specialists.
New evidence suggests that men with early signs of prostate cancer are being missed because screening techniques are inadequate. ...
My 6 year old son has a foreskin which does not retract. Our doctor has allowed us to just wait and see what happens, but now that he is over 5, wants to refer him for surgery for a medical circum ...
Up to 50 per cent of cancer patients will be treated with radiotherapy. It may be used exclusively, or as a back up to chemotherapy or surgery. Like chemotherapy, it comes with its own range of si ...
In a consolidated report of patients who had their amalgam fillings replaced in six separate studies, all the nearly 1600 participants reported cure or improvement of 31 types of conditions. ...
Early use of antibiotics provides only modest benefit for acute otitis media, concludes a major meta analysis. ...
