What Doctors Don't Tell YouDoes a high cholesterol level increase the risk of a heart attack? Medicine seems unable to come up with a definitive answer to this seemingly simple question, and two new studies do little to res ...
Many women are undergoing unnecessary surgery after miscarriage, according to a report (GP, 6 August 1993). ...
A few weeks ago I attended a press conference announcing the launch of a drug, a new type of hormone replacement therapy, organized by a swanky PR company and held at the equally swanky London's S ...
Frequent prenatal ultrasound exposure could restrict fetal growth by a third. ...
Today 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 ...
