What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe safety of unopposed low potency oestrogens, prescribed to treat urogenital symptoms in post menopausal women, is once again being questioned in new evidence which shows a link between HRT and ...
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a constellation of more than 150 known symptoms that occur one week to 10 days before a woman’s menstrual period.
Q:In May 1989 I was diagnosed as having polycystic ovarian disease after many years of suffering hirsutism (excessive body hair) and very irregular periods and more recently premenstrual tension a ...
Until the 1960s, medicine was not much interested in the menopause. It was something which women patients were told they would simply have to put up with. Then as the psychotropic (mind altering) ...
Proponents of HRT constantly attempt to make light of the proven breast and endometrial cancer risks of HRT. A perfect example of this is King's College Hospital John Studd's view that although t ...
* Larium under investigation
The US army has launched a study into the side-effects of antimalarial drug mofloquine (Lariam) following allegations that the drug might be linked to suicides
Oncologists often have only one strategy when dealing with breast cancer: stop the flow of oestrogen to the tumour. Although only half of all breast cancers depend on oestrogen, it’s become a one-size-fits-all approach.
The world's authority on environmental causes of cancer argues that breast cancer can largely be prevented by minimising a variety of dietary, environmental and lifestyle risks. ...
The impact of an anonymous e-mail claiming that antiperspirants and deodorants are a cause of breast cancer is still reverberating - three years after it was circulated. The idea just won’t go away. In the last year alone, there have been several...
Sometimes advice about prevention is simply wrong. Many of the things we believe are preventative may actually do more harm than good.
