What Doctors Don't Tell YouAnnual chest x-rays to screen for tuberculosis (TB) should be stopped even though the disease is once again on the rise. ...
Doctors tell you that steroids only cause side effects after many years. But new research shows that permanent damage is immediate and devastating. Here's how to avoid it. ...
All British GPs are being urged to be more proactive in their prescribing of hormone replacement therapy to women patients. ...
Early in May, in a landmark decision, the British courts struck a blow for patient rights. The Court of Appeal held in favour of Ms S, a woman who had been forcibly given a caesarean section agai ...
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 ...
