What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe synthetic hormone progestogen is being widely prescribed to women for conditions where it is ineffective, or no more useful than a placebo, according to researchers from King's College Hospita ...
The current meningitis C campaign being conducted through the schools is being carried out all nice and reasonable seeming, with reasonable (if rather skimpy) consent forms sent home to the parent ...
Why have a hysterectomy?
Hysterectomy, in which a woman’s womb is removed, is one of the most common surgical operations in the West.
Dilatation and curettage the operation in which a woman's womb is scraped usually to determine the cause of menstrual problems may frequently be used inappropriately, particularly in Britain. ...
Excessive bleeding or pain
* Drugs or devices: birth-control pills; drugs that reduce female hormones; a blood-clotting agent called tranexamic acid; an intrauterine device -
The latest medical procedure for women with abnormally heavy periods being touted as a major gynaecological advance carries a number of possible risks, including hysterectomy, increased period pai ...
Remember: The only true indications for a hysterectomy are: uncontrolled bleeding, particularly during a cesarean, and endometrial or invasive cancer. Many of the conditions which are currently ...
HYSTERECTOMIES: Is this really the only 'cure' for heavy periods?
Doctors have turned period problems into a 'syndrome', requiring an armament of potent drugs, when many symptoms are either normal or the result of nutritional deficiencies. ...
