What Doctors Don't Tell YouMigraine sufferers are widely prescribed sumatriptan, either orally or by injection. A recent study from the Netherlands (Cephalalgia, 1996; 16: 554-9), however, has shown that 24 per cent of p ...
Neurologists are playing a high risk strategy by introducing the drug interferon beta-1b into their general treatment of multiple sclerosis on the basis of just one small trial, a leading physicia ...
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) may be caused by the mother's lack of iodine, a Canadian professor has hypothesized. This lack, which may be exacerbated by excesses or deficiencies of selenium ...
Short children may do better with vitamin A supplements than growth hormone injections, research has indicated. ...
Hospitals should restrict their use of blood transfusions with critically ill patients as this will probably increase their chances of surviving. ...
Controversy over the contraceptive pill and its link with breast cancer has been rekindled. ...
Men who have had vasectomies are at greater risk of developing prostate cancer, according to two US studies of more than 73,000 men (The Lancet, 20 February 1993). ...
Those with long memories will have a feeling of deja vu when reading a recent report which admits that, yes, there may well be a link between contaminated polio vaccines, given routinely three or ...
For the few people in any doubt, the risks of smoking carry on into later life and quitting smoking will help you to live longer no matter when you give up. ...
Older men are also producing less sperm, and of a poorer quality. The worrying trend, observed mainly in younger men and those attending infertility clinics, is affecting those aged between 35 and ...
