What Doctors Don't Tell YouOverwhelming evidence demonstrates that animal tests are dangerous to human health, and may be the reason that so many 'safety tested' drugs cause so many side effects. ...
New data gleaned from a 12 year inquiry into the practices at two "centres of excellence" in the UK showed that children with Down's syndrome were given a lower priority for treatment, and that th ...
Just a few short months ago, cholesterol drugs were a dead duck. Studies began appearing showing that even after years of cholesterol drug consumption, patients were no better off in terms of prev ...
I recently underwent a radical prostate tomy in Athens. It was successful, and I praise the Greek surgeons. But was it necessary? When in the US I had decided to have a check up, since a recent PS ...
Encouraging junior doctors to acquire skills by 'practising' on dying patients has been condemned by many physicians in a new US study (BMJ, 2000; 320: 137). ...
Two kinds of therapies recently in the news have had very different coverage in the medical press, compared with the versions you and I are given in the daily newspapers. ...
On a visit to the GP during the summer last year, my mother let him know that she did not wish to undergo a hysterectomy for her fibroids. ...
Medical 'education' companies funded by the pharmaceutical industry are threatening to undermine medical education in the US. ...
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. ...
