What Doctors Don't Tell YouHYSTERECTOMIES: Is this really the only 'cure' for heavy periods?
More than 20 per cent of babies born in England and Wales are now delivered by caesarean section.
Do women under the age of 50 benefit from mammogram screening? Latest findings from the Swedish study - involving nearly 250,000 women - suggests not,
I recently had a run-in with my local hospital when they insisted that I have a mammogram before they would scan the cysts in my breasts or aspirate them, or do anything else.
RADIOGRAPHS: It’s all in the reading
Telling our children to drink their milk so that they ‘grow big and strong’ may have no truth in it whatsoever.
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Why have a hysterectomy?
Hysterectomy, in which a woman’s womb is removed, is one of the most common surgical operations in the West.
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.
In this atmosphere of ‘botox parties’ where champagne-sipping socialites are injected with botulinum toxin,' says British neurologist Dr Peter Misra,
