What Doctors Don't Tell YouWhile doctors consider stepping up breast cancer screening, new data has revealed a regularly screened woman who develops cancer is no better off than a victim who had never had a mammogram. ...
Thirty five years of randomised trials of mammography have failed to confirm the efficacy of mammograms as a screening tool. ...
A tragedy has occurred in medicine. It is all because doctors have been so blinded by the brave new world of pharmacy they've been unwilling to believe that a cheap, reliable solution to a condi ...
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may not be the great heart disease preventative that medicine has been championing after all. All postmenopausal women in America have been recommended to take th ...
Our daughter was born in May 1995. She needed oxygen and had to be ventilated. Finally, we took her home in mid July and she seemed to be well. Then in January, she developed an infection which me ...
Growth hormone has been used for more than 30 years with varying degrees of success to treat children of short stature. Surprisingly little research has been done on the long term success of this ...
Too many patients are being given chemotherapy, even when it is clear that the drugs have not been effective and they are near death. ...
Radical mastectomy where the breast and surrounding muscles are removed is no better at preserving life than less aggressive treatments. ...
In mid July, some sobering news emerged about ultrasound scanning. According to a Norwegian study of 2,000 babies performed by the National Centre for Foetal Medicine in Trondheim, those subject ...
Hospitalization and administration of antibiotics to infants with fevers is unnecessary with proper screening criteria. ...
