In a list of the most shameful aspects of modern medicine, psychiatry must come at the top of the heap. This is the discipline that has given us - in the name of ‘first-do-no-harm’ hippocratic medicine - electric shock treatment, the lobotomy...
Screening for neuroblastoma, a common childhood cancer, does more harm than good, suggest two new studies.
Surgery - Prostate surgery
One of the things I do in my job is to periodically scour the letters pages of medical journals. On more than one occasion, this arcane activity has borne amazing fruit. At those times, I am astonished to discover another of medicine’s darkest...
WHY YOU PROBABLY WON'T GET ALZHEIMER'S
The frightening statistics on breast cancer deaths have been used by doctors to press women into being tested as early as possible. Breast cancer screening has become a huge money-making industry. But what if the figures are wrong? What if an...
The epidemic proportions of the ADD diagnosis are gaining widespread attention from parents, educators, physicians, and other healthcare providers. Many people are seriously questioning the possibility of overdiagnosis. The rate of Ritalin use in...