What Doctors Don't Tell YouOther kinds of drugs can also induce hypertension, even when used to treat a different condition. ... ...
One reader, a medical herbalist, takes issue with a suggestion last time to try bromelain for emphysema. Mucus is a polysaccharide derivative - ie, a carbohydrate - and so a protein-digesting enzyme would not help.
Exercise is a better bet than drugs to reduce cholesterol, according to the results of two separate US studies.
FEVER: Are we right to hit the panic alarm?
What could we do to help a 14-year-old with glandular fever? Elderberry acts specifically against the virus that causes the fever, according to one reader. Another suggestion is a combination of 1000mg Kyolic Garlic three times a day, and one...
A kinesiologist writes in about a similar case that she was able to successfully treat. The case involved a seven-year-old boy who had been prescribed steroids for hair loss.
While we tend to accept heart disease as an inevitable result of ageing, the overwhelming evidence is that heart disease is preventable through simple changes in lifestyle.
Children who receive multiple doses of the Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccine are at increased risk of developing type I juvenile-onset diabetes, according to new American research.
When a single drug doesn’t sort out a health issue, doctors tend to throw two at the problem. So medicine came up with the idea of hypertensive drug ‘teams’. A firm favourite is a thiazide diuretic (the oldest mainstay of hypertension treatment)...
Ever since Louise Brown, the first ever test-tube baby, came into the world in 1978, in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) has become the first port of call for people having trouble conceiving. Since Louise’s birth,
