What Doctors Don't Tell YouDoctors have assumed that the female hormone estrogen offers natural protection against heart complaints, and is the reason why women suffer fewer attacks than men. ...
Although women are pressurized to have a cervical smear test, a major new official study shows it is ineffective. ...
When doctors can't get a grip on a particular disease, they begin experimenting with ever fiercer treatments on the assumption that the more powerful the weaponry, the greater the likelihood of va ...
Electrical cardioversion - where electrical shocks are used to restore normal heart rhythm after atrial fibrillation (AF) or heart flutter - may work in the short term.
In the world of medicine, the old conundrum which comes first, the chicken or the egg? has transformed into: which comes first, the disease or the medication? This is most apparent in AIDS diagno ...
Psychiatrists are beginning to question the use of the drug lithium in treating manic-depressives. The drug had passed clinical trials with flying colours and has been in frequent use since the 1960s
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 ...
