What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn 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 ...
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. ...
