What Doctors Don't Tell YouContact 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. ...
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 ...
