What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ Having congratulated myself on sailing through the menopause with no hot flushes, I now find myself struck down with vaginal atrophy.
Bedwetting is a problem for about 15 per cent of children after age ten. If your child is still wetting the bed after age six, and he's dry during the day, it's worth investigating. Bedwetting has ...
Varicose veins are always put down to being overweight or too tall, and are considered an exclusively female problem. But men suffer just as much as women, and weight has nothing to do with it inc ...
Q I have a ganglion cyst on my right wrist that is apparently pressing on a nerve and right over a tendon. It’s too painful to bash with the family bible. I'm due to see a hospital consultant with a view to its being either aspirated or removed.
Newspapers have recently been full of reports about MRSA [methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus], the so-called ‘superbug’, which is affecting more and more people in our hospitals.
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The US National Institutes of Health is about to launch a study of the benefits of alternative medical treatments, including nutrition, acupuncture, homoepathy and oriental medicine. ...
Sometimes known as 'pink eye', conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the eye's protective outer covering. In this common condition, the eye becomes red, sore, feels gritty and may ...
Vertigo may have seemed an exotic illness when Alfred Hitchcock immortalised it in his movie of the same name, but it is actually a relatively common condition. This is largely because it is the r ...
