What Doctors Don't Tell YouReader's Corner
It is with great relief that we can report on the speed and efficiency of our drugs watchdogs, which act to protect us. In the UK this week, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHPRA) has pronounced that the antidepressant...
Haemorrhoids (piles) are common - about half the population will have them at some point in life. They are like varicose veins, but of the tissue that lines the anal canal. If these veins become dilated and swollen, they can project into the anal...
SUPPLEMENTS: Are any of them safe, ask the Americans
Screening for prostate cancer is surrounded by controversy - and with good reason. Although deaths due to prostate cancer have gone down since 1985, when the PSA test
Angioplasty, fast becoming the operation of choice for those with a heart condition, is probably no more effective than the bypass surgery it is superceding. ...
An immunisation programme in India that included the DTP jab and three oral doses of the poliomyelitis vaccine has left thousands of children paralysed. ...
A research team surprised itself with findings that hormone replacement therapy can actually be harmful in women who have established coronary heart disease (CHD). ...
A report by the UK Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones has sparked more debate on the safety of mobile phones. While the report concludes that mobile phones are unlikely to cause cancer or a ...
People recently prescribed an antidepressant are more likely to commit suicide than those given a prescription more than 30 days earlier, researchers have discovered. ...
