What Doctors Don't Tell YouUsing 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 ...
If you were to believe the medical literature, you'd think that modern medicine had licked the AIDS virus. ...
Natural family planning described by detractors as the rhythm method or Roman roulette is finally beginning to be recognized by the medical establishment as a safe and effective method of contrace ...
In America and elsewhere, governments are considering whether to replace the current polio vaccine, which is causing the only new cases of polio. ... ...
Gut hunches ... ...
Pravastatin, the cholesterol lowering drug, is no better than placebo, a leading heart specialist has concluded. For every case of heart attack the drug prevents, 316 patients would have to be tr ...
Evidence is accumulating that the testosterone precursor androstenedione confers no benefit to men, and may even be harmful. ...
A new review of the use of radiotherapy for breast cancer, involving 20,000 women, has turned up some worrying findings. ...
