What Doctors Don't Tell YouA new study has revealed that hormone replacement therapy doesn’t help incontinence, one of the reasons it’s prescribed.
Women who smoke while pregnant run a greater risk of giving birth to a baby with limb defects. The risk seems greater among women who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day. ...
Despite recent adverse publicity, beta-carotene does provide an effective safeguard against lung cancer, new research has found. ...
People who suffer from an underactive thyroid are making the condition worse by smoking, researchers have discovered. ...
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Children of smokers are three times as likely to develop serious infections requiring hospital treatment and also run an increased risk of cancer, according to two recent American studies. ...
Coffee drinking can damage your baby even before you get pregnant, according to a Canadian study (JAMA, 22-29 December 1993). ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be set to reclassify nicotine as a drug because it is addictive. If it does, tobacco advertising could be subject to more stringent controls, and ciga ...
Two events have strengthened significantly the hand of those of us who want to exercise our right to breathe clean air at work, unpolluted by colleagues' cigarette smoke. ...
Q My wife has been taking drugs for high blood pressure for six years, and suffers distressing side-effects from whichever type she is prescribed. She is convinced the drugs have no beneficial effect whatsoever, as her blood pressure goes up and...
