What Doctors Don't Tell YouNicotine patches are ineffective in the long term as an aid to stop smoking, concludes a new study. Originally intended to assess the safety of the patches in heart patients, the study found that ...
The practice of prescribing antibiotics for common conditions has, once again, been called into question by two new studies. ...
SLE is difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to treat. Many of the treatments currently administered to sufferers of SLE are nothing more than a shot in the dark. Since SLE can manifest i ...
Over 30 years of use, the measles vaccine has never adequately protected children. In fact, it has only made measles a more dangerous disease. ...
The British government has rushed through a new vaccine for meningitis C and plans to offer it to every child and college student. There's not much we will know about side effects until it's too l ...
The latest antipsychotic drugs may not be any more effective than the older, conventional ones used for treating illnesses such as schizophrenia, according to trials carried out last year.
In the early part of this century, a group of doctors gathered round a patient with cancer, regarding him as something akin to a circus freak. "Take a good look," remarked a senior member," for th ...
Few disorders are as devastating and frightening for an individual as stroke. Often without warning, life can be torn apart by the sudden loss of basic physical or mental skills. Equally, no diso ...
Two antagonistic camps exist among homeopaths - those who only prescribe a single remedy for a particular case (and find anything else anathema), and those who don't mind resorting to combination homeopathic remedies - usually marketed as 'complex'...
Although BRCA2-positive women who use tamoxifen may be less likely to develop breast cancer than those using a placebo, BRCA1-positive women derive no protection from the drug.
