What Doctors Don't Tell YouClozaril (clozapine) has been seen as the last great hope for seriously schizophrenic patients who have not been helped by other antipsychotic drugs. Not only did patients show real improvements with Clozaril, they were free of the embarrassing...
A recent report further cripples the last vestiges of support for hormone replacement therapy as a must-have treatment for menopause.
A new British review has concluded that a woman taking HRT is more likely to contract a life-threatening disease than be protected against one.
A recent study involving 141 patients with suspected pulmonary embolism suggests that magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) may actually be safer than pulmonary angiography
The hospital routine of giving patients the drug heparin as a just in case precaution against fatal pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) is of no benefit, researchers have discovered. ...
AIR TRAVEL: DVT risk is higher than first thought
BUT IS IT SAFE? Routine procedures may not be best procedures
There are about 650,000 cases of pulmonary embolism each year in the US and about 30 per cent die. Although often quick, it is an unpleasant death, and so easily avoided. ...
American Institute for Preventive MedicineChest pain can come from a lot of things. Causes of chest pain that need emergency medical care include: Heart attack, injury such as to the chest wall or lung, collapsed lung, or a blood clot that has traveled to a lung (pulmonary embolism).
