We are now being bombarded almost daily with glycaemic food lists, thanks to the work of Dr Michel Montignac and Dr Robert Atkins. But can you tell me the quantity of food the figures given represent?
Treating women who have had a false positive mammography screening (detecting cancer where there is none) is a third of the cost of providing screening for all women, Swedish researchers have disc ...
Universal screening for cholesterol should be abandoned, the powerful American College of Physicians (ACP) has decreed. Those aged over 75 can safely ignore any screening because cholesterol is no ...
Speaking of limited vaccines, American doctors do not support the government recommendations to add the hepatitis B vaccine to the growing list of vaccines given to infants. ...
All British GPs are being urged to be more proactive in their prescribing of hormone replacement therapy to women patients. ...
While the quality of mammogram testing is being debated in the UK, the US has taken the next step by having all mammography clinics accredited. ...
Sleeping position alone may not be a major factor in cot death, or sudden infant death syndrome. ...
Inflammation of the cervix should not be taken as indicative of any disease, according to Canadian research. ...
Women whose cervical smears turn up mild abnormalities should not have invasive investigations, according to guidelines recently drawn up by a workshop in Oxford. ...
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