What Doctors Don't Tell YouEnthusiasm over the use of growth hormone to slow some of the bone and muscle deterioration of old age has been dampened with the discovery that it causes an "unexpectedly high incidence of side e ...
Using desmopressin acetate (DDAVP) to cure bedwetting in children doesn't hold water. ...
To attempt to separate fact from the vast fiction propagated about both orthodox and alternative treatment of cancer, we have produced a special cancer series in WDDTY. Over the next two issues, ...
The different approaches of the UK and US drug regulators have been noted more than once in this column. A current case in point concerns the thyroid drugs and, in particular, thyroxine sodium, m ...
Annual chest x-rays to screen for tuberculosis (TB) should be stopped even though the disease is once again on the rise. ...
The nutritional supplement glucosamine can ease the symptoms of osteoarthritis and may even modify the course of the disease. ...
The newer anti hypertensive drugs, such as the ACE inhibitor, do not produce significantly better results than older style heart drugs, especially in the elderly, according to new research. ...
Inhaled steroid treatment offers no clinically significant benefit in school age children suffering from asthma, according to a study of children who experienced wheezing associated with upper res ...
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Dieting not only can make you fat it can also kill you, or make you ill ...
