Women believe that they can ensure the well being of their babies by having ultrasound scans and that the earlier any problems are detected, the better. But, increasing evidence now shows that ear ...
A new British report shows that surgeons are performing too many "inappropriate and aggressive" operations on patients who are frail or terminally ill. ...
Doctors who dismissed as an old wives' remedy the use of magnesium to treat pregnant women with eclampsia may have to think again. ...
Should women who have a familial history or genetic risk of breast cancer have a mastectomy just in case? No, according to a recent review. ...
I certainly don't want to tread on anyone's religious beliefs, particularly during the holiday season, but while we're all contemplating age old practices, I've just got to speak out against routi ...
There is nothing worse than a child born with Down's syndrome. Or so medicine teaches us. ... ...
Q:Despite the fact that doctors have got me diagnosed as epileptic, I know I am not and that the underlying cause of my seizures is anti-convulsants. When I put together certain factors to test my ...
A Finnish study found that in a population with a 98 per cent immunisation rate, whooping cough infections remain common. ...
Chest radiographs should not be given as routine to patients entering coronary care units, heart specialists have concluded. Specialists at one heart hospital in Birmingham, England have already s ...
For the past several weeks, our phone has been ringing off the hook from the press about the dangers of the meningitis C vaccine, now that the papers have got wind of the fact that there have been ...