What Doctors Don't Tell YouSome heart specialists are begin to experiment with a new procedure for treating end stage heart failure cutting away part of the left ventricle to reduce its size. ...
Doctors who advise patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) to undergo surgery may be misleading them to think that it may reduce subsequent drug use and cancer risk. ...
Nearly a third of people who have open abdominal or pelvic surgery have to return to hospital because of internal scarring, known as adhesions. ...
A new British report shows that surgeons are performing too many "inappropriate and aggressive" operations on patients who are frail or terminally ill. ...
Q:I am 34 and married. As yet my husband and I have no children. I went to my GP recently, complaining of irregular periods. He suspected that I was pregnant and sent me to a consultant gynaeco ...
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THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: It may kill up to one in five, and yet nobody kn
Early diagnostic tests for prostate cancer are so unreliable that doctors would do better to assess the risk through family medical history, cancer experts have suggested. ...
I have a dear friend who has suffered from labyrinthitis for six months now that she is taking Madopar for Parkinson’s disease. Is there any link between the drug and labyrinthitis/Meniere’s disease or any other side-effects?
