What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe 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 ...
The time consuming detective work needed to isolate the cause of your child's hyperactivity might seem daunting compared with the medical solution of simply taking methyphenidate hydrochloride. B ...
Eletriptan is one of the newer breed of triptans for treating migraine, following in the wake of the more famous sumatriptan. It's cheaper, and is more effective than oral sumatriptan and a recent ...
People who are successfully treated for high blood pressure with drugs such as beta blockers or diuretics are still more likely to die from heart disease. ...
