What Doctors Don't Tell YouMammograms are no longer recommended in New Zealand for women under the age of 50. ...
Opticians are not properly testing for glaucoma, or high blood pressure in the eye, which affects about 2 per cent of people. As a result, only about a half of cases are ever detected and, of thes ...
If you suffer a mild heart attack, your chances of survival are better if the hospital does not immediately operate but instead adopts conservative management of the condition. ...
A recent study and editorial in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologists (19:946-7) casts doubt on the entire concept of coronary angioplasty, that recently developed technique, now mo ...
My son is in his early 40s and his reading of medicine is wide, reinforced by the mental discipline of the Oriental martial arts. ...
Questran is one of a host of drugs routinely prescribed to lower supposedly raised cholesterol levels in patients. Prescriptions of cholesterol lowering drugs generally are on the up and up. Acco ...
Laser eye surgery, the so called miracle solution to myopia, has many hidden dangers, including the possibility that it may make your eyesight worse. ...
More confusing messages from medicine, this time over breast examination. ...
New evidence suggests that the MMR vaccine should never have been given a licence because there was never sufficient evidence of its safety or efficacy. ...
Plain skull radiographs should be abandoned as a means of detecting intracranial bleeding in people with mild head injury, according to Dutch investigators. ...
