What Doctors Don't Tell YouThis so called miracle preventative for heart attacks usually isn't necessary. When it is, the effects don't last. The number of deaths from heart disease reads like a terrifying roll call of modern times: in 1989, 1 million people died of heart...
The standard practice in maternity units of examining a newborn baby twice is a waste of resources and should be stopped. One examination is sufficient to detect any abnormalities, researchers hav ...
The great measles epidemic that was supposedly going to sweep Britain this year was never going to happen, new evidence suggests. ...
Although medicine has always pointed to polio as proof that vaccination works, worrying new findings from Romania indicate that the vaccine is actually causing outbreaks of the disease. ...
Now I've read everything. In a recent copy of the Lancet, a review of 29 medical studies concluded that antidepressants like Prozac are an effective first line treatment for women with severe cas ...
Routine episiotomy where the vagina is cut to supposedly allow for an easier birth should be abandoned immediately, concludes an Argentinian study group report. It also states that rates of episi ...
Question: When is an operation not an operation? Answer: When it's a section. ...
Neither healthy women in labour nor their babies derive any benefit from electronic fetal monitor (EFM) on admission to hospital. ...
While doctors consider stepping up breast cancer screening, new data has revealed a regularly screened woman who develops cancer is no better off than a victim who had never had a mammogram. ...
Thirty five years of randomised trials of mammography have failed to confirm the efficacy of mammograms as a screening tool. ...
