What Doctors Don't Tell YouThere's quite a range of antacids on offer at the local chemist to treat heartburn and indigestion, and much of it should be taken with caution. ...
Q My 23-year-old girlfriend suffers from irregular periods and serious pelvic pain. She is slim and blood tests show normal hormone levels. Yet, a year ago, her ultrasound was highly suggestive of polycystic ovaries. Her periods have regulated...
Q:My neurologist has recently prescribed the drugs baclofen and ...
Q I have just had my second saliva stone removed: one was fairly accessible; and one was less so and resulted in nerve damage to my tongue. Whenever I ask the doctors why I form these stones, they shrug their shoulders and say, ‘Nobody knows’. They...
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SEROXAT: the drug the BBC dares name
Doctors may be pushing statins like mad for everything from osteoporosis to Alzheimer's disease, but patients aren't having it. Although the use of statin drugs has increased fourfold between 1996 ...
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...
The complex process of thyroid functioning is initiated in the hypothalamus and controlled by the pituitary gland. Both are 'master glands',
Skin lightening creams should be banned, following renewed concerns over their safety (BMJ, 17 October 1992). ...
