What Doctors Don't Tell YouI 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. ...
The medical meddlers are at it again. This time they're trying to programme babies not to get heart attacks later in life. ...
The latest drugs which look like making a fortune for the drugs industry are those designed to lower blood cholesterol levels. ...
Regular screening of individuals at risk of lung cancer may not reduce death from the disease. ...
Mammograms are at their poorest in detecting breast cancer when the woman is under 50 and when the time between screenings is about two years. ...
Early amniocentesis the prenatal test for Down's syndrome is so dangerous that Dutch researchers may abandon their trials into the procedure because it is not "ethically justified" to continue. ...
Recently, after the Royal Free Hospital in London published a study in The Lancet showing a possible association between the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, the government and th ...
