Adults with injured lungs are being subjected to procedures which are largely untested and unproven, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. ...
Remember: The only true indications for a hysterectomy are: uncontrolled bleeding, particularly during a cesarean, and endometrial or invasive cancer. Many of the conditions which are currently ...
US doctors are still over prescribing antibiotics to babies, a new study reveals. ...
Antibiotics, the wonder drugs of the Fifties, are responsible for many aillnesses in the Nineties. ... ...
Hysterectomy the most frequently performed surgery on women does not protect against cancer, according to research. ...
In the highly successful marketing campaign for HRT, drug companies have managed to pitch the drug as an all purpose cure all of the bugbears of old age. Defenders of HRT haul out a roll call of ...
Many elderly patients are being unnecessarily treated with diuretic drugs, according to research from the Netherlands. ...
This 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. ...