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. ...
Second-line treatments to treat rheumatoid arthritis are being pushed to the front at greater risk to the patient. ...
In October 2001, the government added a new ‘safer’ vaccine to its booster schedule, with no real safety testing. But new evidence shows that whooping cough is mutating and may not respond.
Many authorities in medicine admit that most of the drug therapies for asthma are making the problem worse. ...
There is still some dispute over what elements ought to be included in an acellular vaccine, largely because scientists don’t really understand which components in the pertussis vaccine are required to stimulate an immune response.
Mammographic screening has been used for years to supposedly detect the early stages of breast cancer. But a committee of US cancer experts - the Physician Data Query (PDQ) board - now says there is insufficient evidence to show that mammograms can...
Statins are the new wonder drugs now used to prevent everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's. But new evidence from a Finnish doctor shows that statins don't lower cholesterol which, in any c ...
