Just 18 months after the UK’s Department of Health declared that the slimming drug Reductil (sibutramine) was safe, fresh evidence from the USA suggests that they may need to think again.
One of the things conventional medicine prides itself on is its diagnoses. But much of the credit goes not to doctors, but to the technologists who have created increasingly sophisticated ways of peering into the human body.
Q Just under two years ago, I underwent arthroscopy in one of my knees. As the pain and immobility was a great problem for me,
There’s nothing like a new drug to cause amnesia in the medical community. Fresh from the Women’s Health Initiative and other massive studies showing that hormone replacement therapy causes cancer, doctors are now waxing lyrical over the benefits of...
THIMEROSAL: Why is this poison still in our vaccines?
Britain not normally renowned for its stringent environmental controls is the first country in the world to establish a standard for levels of the pollutant benzene, following the recent publicati ...
A recent case study adds to the catalogue of potential adverse effects of steroid use after organ transplantation. ...
America's top health officials have delayed the introduction of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) even though they know that the live version is causing up to 10 cases of paralytic polio ev ...
Oral and intravenous forms of the antifungal itraconazole (Sporanox) have been found to lead to an increased risk of congestive heart failure. ...
Newer third generation birth control pills such as desogestrel or gestodene may not be safer for your heart than their predecessors, as originally predicted. ...
