What Doctors Don't Tell YouToday doctors and other health care professionals are responsible for a horrifying amount of illness. They admit that when a patient has to be admitted to hospital there is a one in ten chance th ...
Further evidence that breast screening for women aged under 50 is of little value has come from a Canadian study. Researchers there have found that mammograms may miss breast cancer if the woman i ...
Medical experts have finally agreed that cholesterol-lowering drugs are being given out unnecessarily to people. ...
Up to one third of women given a mammogram could suffer the anguish of a false positive where the test incorrectly detects breast cancer and consequently further unnecessary medical intervention, ...
Every so often a magic bullet comes along which promises to transform our health in a single pill, and so we grab it with both hands and ask all the hard questions later. ...
Steroids are fast catching up with antibiotics as the most abused class of drugs in your doctor's black bag. There's no doubt that the discovery of steroids a half century ago was a major advance ...
I made a house visit to a patient with mastitis whose baby was six days old. Her GP had just been and told her she needed antibiotics. She asked him whether she might try homeopathic treatment as ...
Premature babies are at great risk of suffering brain injury, so they are routinely given transfusions as a preventative. But new research has discovered that the procedure is worthless. ...
People who have operations to strip their varicose veins are at risk from suffering venous thromboembolism (vein blockage by a clot) after surgery, Swiss doctors warn. ...
Hospitals should restrict their use of blood transfusions with critically ill patients as this will probably increase their chances of surviving. ...
