What Doctors Don't Tell YouBesides offering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a quick-fix solution for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, mood swings and weight gain, medicine has been using it as preventative medicine against cardiovascular problems such as heart...
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* Check female hormone levels (by a simple lab test) as these conditions are all hormone-related. The key is to stabilise the hormonal situation causing the cyclic upset
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Most of us think of fat as a disgusting sign of overindulgence and lethargy. In some cases, it may well be. But new research shows that, far from being superfluous, body fat helps to protect bones and organs,
Female sterilisation is touted as a safe and hassle-free means of permanently ridding yourself of having more children, particularly for the over-40s. Although doctors usually tell women that tying your tubes is ‘Band-Aid’ surgery, there’s nothing...
Just when you thought there was no more bad news to report about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), along comes a study that reveals it isn't even good for the one thing for which it's still being prescribed - incontinence. Doctors who thought that...
In their clamour to promote HRT as a "natural" and therefore "healthy" hormone, the drug companies and the medical profession have conveniently overlooked that there are natural sources of estroge ...
If you are an older woman, modern medicine would have you believe you've basically got two choices: take a drug for an indeterminate amount of time, or turn into a humpbacked, sexless, dottering o ...
Re the excellent report on AIDS and HIV (WDDTY vol 13 no 11), vested pharmaceutical interests have been responsible for fundamental misunderstandings concerning the nature of AIDS and the use of AZT,
Q For five years now I’ve had a skin condition called hidradenitis. I’ve been admitted to hospital 24 times to have abscesses lanced but, within a few months of each treatment, the abscesses recur. I am almost constantly on antibiotics, which I feel...
