Surgical removal of the appendix, or appendectomy, is the most common operation in the West (BMJ, 2002; 325: 505-6): 6-8 per cent of Britons and North Americans will undergo the operation in their lifetime. Generally considered a safe and standard...
Two health centres are being set up in the US to study alternative health. The centres, in Minneapolis and Seattle, will scientifically assess the benefits of the treatments in the same way that ...
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 ...
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