What Doctors Don't Tell YouKeyhole surgery, the gee-whiz technology that has transformed surgery, still doesn’t work as well as the old-fashioned conventional surgery for hernia.
WATCH OUT: Here comes the man in the white coat
The gastrointestinal bug Clostridium difficile is running rampant through hospitals in the UK, mainly because hygiene standards are too low. Antibiotics are also ‘inappropriately’ given, and doctors are failing to report outbreaks, the Healthcare...
Q-A friend of mine is thinking of having liposuction. I wonder if you or any of your readers have any experience of it as I understand some of the results are less than satisfactory. She wants to ...
Recently, you may have heard of the British family whose 9-year-old daughter died from chickenpox after being given steroids to treat a relatively minor eye problem (see Case Study, p 10).
BUT IS IT SAFE? Routine procedures may not be best procedures
The story so far: Serevent (salmeterol xinafoate) is a beta-agonist inhaler for asthmatics. Deaths were so quickly associated with the drug following its approval that the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
Male sterilisation is a permanent form of contraception that tends to be favoured by men in the older age- groups. In the US, 20 per cent of men over 35 have had a vasectomy, and around a half-million procedures are carried out each year. It is...
People with AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) should beware of biopsies, according to doctors in the USA.
