Doctors helping to deliver a handicapped baby might now be breaking the law. ...
As readers of WDDTY are only too well aware, doctors in the main don't like to be challenged, and they certainly don't like admitting their mistakes.
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Solicitors for some 400 diabetics who claim to have suffered serious side effects from the use of human insulin have banded together to coordinate what may amount to a multi million pound action f ...
Your chances of dying in hospital, or suffering some injury while there, stand at around 16 per cent. Half this risk is due to doctor or hospital error which means that 8 per cent of hospital pati ...
A 49 year old woman died in a London hospital after undergoing "keyhole" bowel surgery by a doctor who had no previous experience of this particular surgical technique. ...
American doctors who routinely give mammograms to women under 50 are needlessly exposing them to radiation and inaccurate diagnoses, charge two leading British cancer specialists. ...
Up to 12 per cent of all American boys aged between six and 14 are being prescribed the amphetamine Ritalin (methylphenidate) to treat behavioural disorders. But, warns the United Nations' Interna ...
This month, our theme is drug secrecy. Perhaps the most galling aspect of the climate of secrecy surrounding drugs is that once you've been permanently damaged by a drug, every possible obstacle ...
More reasons to stay out of hospital. ...