What Doctors Don't Tell YouSLE is difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to treat. Many of the treatments currently administered to sufferers of SLE are nothing more than a shot in the dark. Since SLE can manifest i ...
This story begins with a verruca, which belonged to my daughter, Frances, six years old and a frequenter of swimming pools. We tried to get rid of the thing with a selection of plasters that look ...
The prospect of surgery is very distressing and worrying for anyone, and you're not likely to feel at your strongest at these times. There will also be a natural tendency to trust the surgeon impl ...
Two new examples of medical overkill have been announced to tackle that major problem of childhood: otitis media, or middle ear infections. ...
Only one in 14 women with a positive mammography result indicating breast cancer will actually have the condition, researchers have discovered. This means that many women are going through needles ...
Half of the 285,000 coronary angioplasty operations carried out in the US in 1990 were probably unnecessary, according to an American study. ...
Womb snatching ... ...
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A report from the Health Technology Assessment programme shows that routine early x-ray examinations for low back pain are expensive and confer little benefit. ...
More people are having unnecessary gall bladder operations simply because surgeons find the new surgical techniques easier to perform. ...
