What Doctors Don't Tell YouWhile conventional medicine currently admits defeat in treating HIV infection, alternative approaches have shown some remarkable success. A range of studies suggests that Chinese and Western reme ...
New data from Australia add to the growing scepticism about the effects of rub-on progesterone creams as a miracle cure for everything from menopausal symptoms to osteoporosis.
In the second part of our special report, we catalogue the little known side effects of a drug that is more likely to make you ill than add sparkle to your life. ... ...
Researchers 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. ...
