Diethylstilboestrol (DES), the synthetic oestrogen, caused re-productive deformities and reproductive cancer among a generation of children born to millions of American women who took the drug to prevent mis-carriage in the middle of the last...
Children born after assisted reproduction, where the technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection is used, are twice as likely to have a major birth defect, and 50 per cent more likely to h ...
The supposedly best hope for AIDS sufferers, zidovudine (AZT), has been shown to have no effect in delaying the onset of the disease in healthy HIV positive people and does not improve their chanc ...
Older people who eat an orange a day during the winter can reduce their risks of a heart attack by 10 per cent. An orange contains about 60 mg of the vitamin, which scientists reckon is enough to ...
Laboratory tests were unable to pick up food allergies that may have caused, or exacerbated, rheumatoid arthritis. ...
Chiropractors are a popular choice for Americans suffering low back pain. But at least one study indicates that they are the most expensive option, because of frequent follow-up visits, and are no ...
Several decades of prevailing medical wisdom on the best place for you to have your baby have been cast aside with a recent House of Commons year long inquiry into NHS maternity services. ...
A second major cancer study in the US has been discredited after data had been falsified. The news follows the revelation just a month earlier that the biggest survey on breast cancer in North Ame ...
Children suffering from acute bronchiolitis are routinely treated with steroids, especially in North America, although there is no evidence to show that they work. ...
It's been well documented that alcohol can cause cancer of the esophagus the canal which leads to the stomach but does the risk go away once you stop drinking? ...
