What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe invitation to WDDTY readers to record their drug side-effects on your special website draws attention to the fact that thousands of patients are unable to do so.
Several decades of prevailing medical wisdom on the best place for you to have your baby have been cast aside with a recent House of Commons year long inquiry into NHS maternity services. ...
Early in May, in a landmark decision, the British courts struck a blow for patient rights. The Court of Appeal held in favour of Ms S, a woman who had been forcibly given a caesarean section agai ...
For the past 14 years, my adult daughter, who had been a useful and respected member of society in full-time employment, has been subjected to misdiagnoses, inappropriately prescribed drugs,
A family doctor can easily earn an extra £15,000 a year by enrolling their patients in a trial for a newly licensed drug. Unfortunately, the patient is not aware that he’s participating in a trial or that his doctor
Contact lens cases of the future may carry a warning: "This product could cause blindness." ...
Every so often something reminds me that medicine, as it is now practised, engages in what the late medical critic Dr Robert Mendelsohn once referred to as "holy war on the family". ...
The following are tried and tested alternatives to blood transfusion during various procedures. If you or a loved one is due to undergo surgery or give birth, and you don't wish to have a blood t ...
UK health authorities are targeting schools in London to encourage the vaccination of children with the MMR jab after uptake levels fell to an all-time low following the autism scare. They hope to vaccinate 90,000 children, aged between 4 and 11...
Many advertisements for drugs in the medical literature are misleading and could lead to improper prescribing, said a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine. ...
