There is nothing worse than a child born with Down's syndrome. Or so medicine teaches us. ... ...
Q:Despite the fact that doctors have got me diagnosed as epileptic, I know I am not and that the underlying cause of my seizures is anti-convulsants. When I put together certain factors to test my ...
A Finnish study found that in a population with a 98 per cent immunisation rate, whooping cough infections remain common. ...
Chest radiographs should not be given as routine to patients entering coronary care units, heart specialists have concluded. Specialists at one heart hospital in Birmingham, England have already s ...
For the past several weeks, our phone has been ringing off the hook from the press about the dangers of the meningitis C vaccine, now that the papers have got wind of the fact that there have been ...
Drug companies enjoy greater secrecy under law than any other industry group. ...
Q:In common with many women of my age ( I am 68) I suffer from a vaginal prolapse. When this condition first occurred some six years ago, my gynaecologist fitted a support ring without giving me ...
One fifth of well controlled hypertensives in the UK could have their medication withdrawn without serious side effects, according to new data. ...
Regular screening of women at low risk of developing cervical cancer is a waste of money and resources, researchers believe.
SLE 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 ...
