What Doctors Don't Tell YouHaving no symptoms, hypertension can only be diagnosed by measuring it. Two readings are taken: the pressure of the blood when pumping (systolic), and the resting pressure between each heartbeat (diastolic).
Caesareans and all their potential side effects can be avoided. However, since all the evidence points to the relative lack of effectiveness of practitioners in reducing the number of surgical del ...
Heart bypass - or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) - is a radical procedure that has become the most frequently performed of all surgical operations, with around 500,000 carried out every year in the US alone. Around 10 per cent of all heart...
Drug treatment for high blood pressure can bring on a heart attack in men, according to Swedish researchers. ...
Breast cancer is the second biggest lady killer in the Western world, we’re told. Most experts believe the causes are almost certainly to be found in the environment - particularly with the latest disclosure that
One of the reasons given for the so-called advances in the war against cancer is that doctors are now screening for cancer, and so are able to detect and treat it earlier. This belief has become so entrenched in the medical mind that no amount of...
Screening for neuroblastoma, a common childhood cancer, does more harm than good, suggest two new studies.
Sciatica - pain along the large sciatic nerve that runs from the lower back down the back of each leg - can be severe and debilitating. As with so many chronic conditions, the treatment gets progressively more aggressive the longer the problem...
