What Doctors Don't Tell YouResearchers from Belgium, France, the US and Poland have concluded that just because a tumour 'responds' to chemotherapy doesn't automatically mean a better chance of patient survival. ...
Drugs taken to prevent Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) can safely be stopped in HIV patients who develop an immunological response following highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), acco ...
PSA (prostate specific antigen) screening may be unable to detect prostate cancer, some scientists believe. More men who were screened died from prostate cancer compared with those who were not, ...
Are over-the-counter (OTC) medicines all that they’re cracked up to be? GPs and other health professionals are encouraged to recommend OTC cough medicines as the first line of treatment for acute cough, but trial evidence so far doesn’t support this.
Q:Recently I had occasion to visit my GP as a migraine attack had occurred, far worse than I had experienced previously, shortly followed by another. ...
There is one exciting development for malaria treatment on the horizon: a plant called qinghao, or wormwood, in the West, also known as Artemisia annua by the Chinese. ... ...
Children suffering from acute bronchiolitis are routinely treated with steroids, especially in North America, although there is no evidence to show that they work. ...
Using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or keeping one or both ovaries has little effect on the menopausal symptoms of women who have had a hysterectomy, says a US study. ...
The anti-AIDS drug AZT (Retrovir) is suddenly being pushed as a treatment for preventing HIV-positive mothers from passing on the condition to their unborn children. ...
Only one in 14 women with a positive mammography result indicating breast cancer will actually have the condition, researchers have discovered. This means that many women are going through needles ...
