What Doctors Don't Tell YouMany advertisements for drugs in the medical literature are misleading and could lead to improper prescribing, said a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine. ...
The current meningitis C campaign being conducted through the schools is being carried out all nice and reasonable seeming, with reasonable (if rather skimpy) consent forms sent home to the parent ...
CAESAREAN: If you follow the guidelines, make sure you don't face a mu
Photographs transmitted all over the world of prisoner 'Annette', from the notorious Holloway Prison in London, labouring in chains have caused us all to take stock of the penal system's treatment of pregnant women.
A legal petition to stop growth hormone trials among children has been served in the US. The National Institutes of Health has been charged with abuse of children and the violation of regulations ...
Let me tell you about the latest wrinkle in the saga of the family I called the "Smiths" (Viewpoint, WDDTY vol 11 no 3). As you may recall, Social Services took the issue of slight underweight (a ...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
At first sight, it may seem obvious that before being expected to agree to what amounts to an invasion of one's body in other fields, a criminal offence that patients should be given the fullest p ...
Patients kitted out with a certain kind of artificial heart valves are being urged to replace them, since the risks of their breaking are greater than supposed. ...
Around 600,000 babies are born each year in the UK to women considered to be at high risk of having HIV; of these, just 59 are actually born HIV positive. ...
