Female sterilisation is touted as a safe and hassle-free means of permanently ridding yourself of having more children, particularly for the over-40s. Although doctors usually tell women that tying your tubes is ‘Band-Aid’ surgery, there’s nothing...
Doctors tell you that steroids only cause side effects after many years. But new research shows that permanent damage is immediate and devastating. Here's how to avoid it. ...
Re WDDTY vol 14 no 3, some years ago the amino-acid L-tryptophan was sold in healthfood stores and used by thousands of people for sleep and stress-related problems. Sadly, L-tryptophan was taken off the market
A heart drug is being tested as a better way of stopping pre term labour. The drug, nifedipine, is looking promising, early trials have found, and can postpone delivery much more effectively than ...
Up to one-third of all coronary bypass surgery may be unnecessary, and could even be hastening the death of the patient. ...
Ultrasound scanning of pregnant women may cause their children to have delayed speech development, according to a Canadian study. ...
Stand by for a campaign to vaccinate children against measles even earlier, following a major study into the use of vaccines in a developing country. ...
Screening for prostate cancer has become more and more widespread fuelled by analogies with the "success" of breast cancer screening programmes. ...
The first British injuries case alleging that a brain tumour was caused by mobile phone use is going ahead on the back of a new large scale study that has linked the phones to health worries (see ...
The very first issue of WDDTY kicked off with the dangers of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in response to a great deal of propaganda by the British government at the time, touting the ben ...
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