What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ-Is there anything, apart from conventional antifungals, that can cure persistent fungal nail infection? I have suffered from this condition for several years and nothing seems to get rid of it c ...
If you do happen to be among the 10 per cent of people reckoned to suffer from anal fissures, medicine has got an interesting new treatment lined up for you. ...
Women who have hysterectomies are 40 per cent more likely to experience urinary incontinence than those who have not had the operation. ...
A new technique - endometrial ablation - for treating heavy periods has potentially fatal side effects.
Seven years ago, my only medical problem was a prolapsed bladder. But I chose the wrong gynaecologist for this procedure. In addition to performing a hysterectomy against my wishes, she did a gr ...
I would like to reassure patients who are offered a joint replacement that all is not laden with threat or devoid of hope. Early in 1994, I was told that I needed both hips replacing, possibly in ...
Mounting concern over the MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) crisis in UK hospitals hit a frenzied note recently after news of the superbug’s latest victim hit the headlines. Baby Luke, born a healthy 7lb 7oz with no apparent...
The miracle surgery which helps the lame walk may have its price. New evidence shows that metallic debris from the replaced joints travels to other organs, possibly causing cancer. ...
Medicine is more often a belief system than a science, and doctors invariably cling to practices they know and love, irrespective of the data. Take, for instance, the pulmonary-artery catheter, which doctors cling to as a baby would to his dummy.
Up to 24 per cent of women who have breast implants suffer at least one complication. ...
