What Doctors Don't Tell YouScreening for prostate cancer has become more and more widespread fuelled by analogies with the "success" of breast cancer screening programmes. ...
New data suggest that supplementing with vitamin E can help lower rates of asthma, rhinitis and hayfever. ...
Despite the known cumulative risks to you and your unborn children, this most routine medical test is still being overused on nearly every part of your body. ...
Infertility and repeated miscarriage clearly have many causes. Besides the better known reasons, such as blocked fallopian tubes, failure to ovulate, impotence and poor timing, the most likely cau ...
Patients taking drugs for HIV may be taking them for life, suggests the latest research published in Science magazine.
High dose chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplant is not an effective way to improve breast cancer survival rates, according to the preliminary results of four ongoing clinical trials. ...
The hospital routine of giving patients the drug heparin as a just in case precaution against fatal pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) is of no benefit, researchers have discovered. ...
The newest type of ultrasound scan the nuchal translucency scan is not much more accurate than a normal scan for detecting Downs' syndrome. For the last few years, women have been promised that th ...
A new study has found that as much as 10 per cent of travellers may develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT) on long haul flights. ...
Q:How safe are the nicotine patches for stopping smoking? Do they really work? J McB, Washington, DC....... ...
