What Doctors Don't Tell YouMy 6 year old son has a foreskin which does not retract. Our doctor has allowed us to just wait and see what happens, but now that he is over 5, wants to refer him for surgery for a medical circum ...
Up to 50 per cent of cancer patients will be treated with radiotherapy. It may be used exclusively, or as a back up to chemotherapy or surgery. Like chemotherapy, it comes with its own range of si ...
In a consolidated report of patients who had their amalgam fillings replaced in six separate studies, all the nearly 1600 participants reported cure or improvement of 31 types of conditions. ...
Early use of antibiotics provides only modest benefit for acute otitis media, concludes a major meta analysis. ...
Mammograms are no longer recommended in New Zealand for women under the age of 50. ...
Opticians are not properly testing for glaucoma, or high blood pressure in the eye, which affects about 2 per cent of people. As a result, only about a half of cases are ever detected and, of thes ...
If you suffer a mild heart attack, your chances of survival are better if the hospital does not immediately operate but instead adopts conservative management of the condition. ...
A recent study and editorial in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologists (19:946-7) casts doubt on the entire concept of coronary angioplasty, that recently developed technique, now mo ...
My son is in his early 40s and his reading of medicine is wide, reinforced by the mental discipline of the Oriental martial arts. ...
Questran is one of a host of drugs routinely prescribed to lower supposedly raised cholesterol levels in patients. Prescriptions of cholesterol lowering drugs generally are on the up and up. Acco ...
