What Doctors Don't Tell YouMedicine 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. ...
Latest clinical trials confirm that implanted cardiac defibrillators do not benefit heart attack patients. ...
Men may get more then they bargained for when they have hair transplants. In a recent case study, the transplant was a success, but doctors nearly lost the patient. ...
New research from the UK has prompted calls for a curtailment of laparoscopic hernia repairs, in favour of general surgery. ...
Even if the repair operation is a technical ‘success’, bile duct injury (BDI) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal by ‘keyhole’ surgery) has a strong adverse effect on the patient’s quality of life for many years after the...
Doctors reach for this mechanical miracle to sort out all manner of cardiac irregularities, but problems with pacemakers are legion from design flaws to poor placement and they are vastly overused.
Q-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. ...
