What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn October 1991 my doctor sent me hospital for a mammogram. (I am 57.) ...
Children are receiving radiation exposures from computed tomography (CT) that are five times higher than necessary, according to new data. ...
Karol Sikora, professor of oncology at London's Hammersmith Hospital Royal Postgraduate Medical School is calling for a comprehensive review of Britain's cancer services. ...
Women who receive certain forms of chemotherapy or drugs combined with radiation for breast cancer are at increased risk of developing leukaemia. ...
A little more than a hundred years after Thomas Edison first worked out how a bit of carbonised sewing thread could continue to light up an incandescent bulb, electricity has insinuated itself into every aspect of our daily lives. Edison's eventual...
Men with prostate cancer are unlikely to gain any real benefit from androgen suppression procedures, either surgical or pharmacological, which are aimed at controlling male hormones. ...
Why do American blacks have fewer Down's syndrome births than any other racial group? And why should Hispanics fare the worst, with 11.8 Down's syndrome babies out of every 10,000 births? ...
Men with prostate cancer may not need to undergo radical prostatectomy (removal of prostate gland). ...
A media frenzy surrounded the "mobile phones are good for you" study and the recent BBC Panorama, featuring the research with a negative spin. The reality is that Dr Alan Preece's long awaited res ...
Hospitals are zapping X-ray patients with levels higher than necessary. ...
