What Doctors Don't Tell YouLast autumn, I felt generally under the weather, as did my husband and daughter. I have always responded well to acupuncture, so on the advice of an acupuncturist friend of a friend, we decided 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.
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.
