What Doctors Don't Tell YouRegular screening of individuals at risk of lung cancer may not reduce death from the disease. ...
Q:Everyday, I read in the paper about how cholesterol lowering drugs have now definitely been shown to save lives. My doctor is pressing me to take pravastatin because my cholesterol is slightly e ...
Q:My husband, who is 63, was told several months ago that he had prostate cancer. I am giving my husband various homeopathic remedies. We have been vegetarian for 10 years, so we have boosted o ...
The supposedly best hope for AIDS sufferers, zidovudine (AZT), has been shown to have no effect in delaying the onset of the disease in healthy HIV positive people and does not improve their chanc ...
Heart patients with normal cholesterol levels are not helped by cholesterol lowering drugs, a research team has concluded. They discovered that the drugs had "no measurable benefit" on coronary ar ...
Thirty five years of randomised trials of mammography have failed to confirm the efficacy of mammograms as a screening tool. ...
Nicotine patches are ineffective in the long term as an aid to stop smoking, concludes a new study. Originally intended to assess the safety of the patches in heart patients, the study found that ...
The practice of prescribing antibiotics for common conditions has, once again, been called into question by two new studies. ...
SLE is difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to treat. Many of the treatments currently administered to sufferers of SLE are nothing more than a shot in the dark. Since SLE can manifest i ...
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,
