What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) is often prescribed to treat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) but researchers have found it has absolutely no beneficial effect. ...
A natural progesterone cream supposed to reverse postmenopausal osteoporosis is ineffective because it is not properly absorbed into the system. ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new cocktail of vaccines for use on babies and children between two months and five years (JAMA, 19 May 1993). ...
The latest bit of gee whizz technology, laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal), has been given US official "gold standard" treatment approval for gallstones, even though questions pers ...
Dr Max Gerson developed a nutritional programme for which he claimed a high level of success (see WDDTY Guide to Cancer). Gerson's nutritional programme advocates: ... ...
Painkillers prescribed in combination are a waste of time, according to a recent large study.
Alopecia hits men and women on different parts of the head and in varying degrees. Men tend to lose hair along the scalp, while women's hair starts thinning from the front part of the head.
Prescribing anticonvulsants is an ineffective way of controlling neonatal seizures, say researchers. ...
Growth hormones for short children are hardly worth using, researchers have discovered. They found that the hormones improved the height of small children by such an insignificant amount that the ...
Most of the "big hitting" pain control treatments, such as steroid injections, are useless, a new study has found. ...
