What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ:Please tell me the success rate for bone-marrow transplants in patients with leukemia. L G, Norwich. ...
Q:I would be interested to see some discussion in WDDTY on the pros and cons of laser operations to correct vision defects. H H, Reading, Berks....... ...
While evidence is thin on the ground for many other alternative therapies, lymphoma has been shown to respond to heat treatment. .. ...
Cheaper antihypertensive drugs work better than expensive calcium channel blockers, according to a new metaanalysis carried out as a joint effort by investigators at three universities in North Ca ...
Breast cancer patients have nothing to gain from taking tamoxifen for longer than five years, according to a new study. ...
New evidence suggests that a new type of therapy using leukotriene receptor antagonists may not be effective in patients with moderate to severe asthma. ...
The risks of suffering a heart attack if you're taking the contraceptive pill have been well documented but researchers have found that the risk is far greater if you are an older woman who smokes ...
On March 16, I was lured to a press conference held at the Novaris Foundation in London on the promise that it was going to demonstrate that there is scientific proof that acupuncture really works ...
SSRIs are promoted as having fewer unwanted effects than alternatives, to be more acceptable to more patients and to be safer in overdose (and thus to decrease the risk of suicide). Two independent meta-analyses,
"Mum has Alzheimer's," chirrups an advertisement for the drug donepezil hydrochloride in the medical press, "but she knew I was calling today." Unfortunately that's about as good as it's going to ...
