In August 1992 when I was 55 I had a total hip replacement after I had been having trouble with osteoarthritis off and on for years. ...
US drug companies have decided to take their wares directly to the people. ...
Each year, thousands of premature babies in intensive care nurseries lose their sight to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an eye disease which damages and detaches retina. ...
No doubt you’ve been reading the devastating press about vitamins being useless in the treatment of heart disease. Before you throw your bottles in the bin (or before the EU does that for you), it is worth sifting through the details,
The first signs of an incipient patients' revolt against the controlled clinical trial (CCT) have begun to appear. Those are the supposedly airtight scientific studies in which patients are random ...
Ignoring mounting evidence of the dangers of silicon gel breast implants, the American Medical Association has endorsed a report recommending their use on an "informed consent" basis. ...
A family doctor can easily earn an extra £15,000 a year by enrolling their patients in a trial for a newly licensed drug. Unfortunately, the patient is not aware that he’s participating in a trial or that his doctor
Too many patients are being given chemotherapy, even when it is clear that the drugs have not been effective and they are near death. ...
The UK government seems determined to press ahead with planned extensions of water fluoridation schemes in the UK. This is despite many warnings and much evidence
Drug company sweeteners to doctors to encourage them to prescribe their products are to be outlawed under legislation due to come into force in 1994. ...