Elective surgery is any procedure that is subject to choice, as opposed to urgent or emergency surgery that must be performed straightaway. You can derive benefit from an elective procedure, but it may be better to wait a while before having it done.
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No rolling up your sleeve for a painful shot in the arm. Just a couple of sniffs and you are protected from the dreaded flu.
That’s the sales pitch for the latest flu vaccine FluMist,
My daughter had a febrile seizure on her first birthday, less than two weeks after MMR vaccination. Of my three children, she’s the only one who has had convulsions. Her early childhood health was poor, with recurring ear infections, high...
Menactra, one of the two meningitis vaccines available in the US, may cause Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a serious neurological disorder.
OK, that’s enough fun for a while – now back to the bad news. Cholecystectomy – or gallbladder removal – is one of the most common surgical procedures, with around 750,000 performed in the States alone every year...
People with AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) should beware of biopsies, according to doctors in the USA.
Children as young as two are being prescribed powerful mood-changing drugs such as Prozac and other antidepressants. Although usage usually begins at the age of six and then carries on until the age of 19,
Recombinant DNA technology - or gene engineering - has progressed dramatically in the past decade to the point where it now represents 98 per cent of all fertility drugs prescribed in the US.
Re ‘Childhood Cancer’ (WDDTY vol 13 no 1), mention should have been made of the work of Dr Ernest J. Sternglass, available online at www.ratical.com/ radiation/SecretFallout/.
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