What Doctors Don't Tell YouAfter years of being the odd one out against the likes of Dr John Studd, Theresa Gorman, MP, and broadcaster Dr Miriam Stoppard, Britain’s greatest apologists for hormone replacement therapy, I am pleased to witness that HRT is finally on the...
After all its other bad press recently, it’s the final nail in the coffin for hormone replacement therapy. The large-scale US Women’s Health Initiative studies have found that, among other risks,
Does menopause make you lose your memory or is this just a myth after all? Tests carried out on 16 young women during their menstrual cycle showed that levels of recollection were constant throughout.
Q I have Crohn’s disease and my GP has recently offered me a new drug called Remicade. Do you have any information on this drug? - RH, Elstead, Surrey
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 ...
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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.
