What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe drug manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb has been taken to task by The Lancet, the medical journal, for attempting to stop an independent trial into one of its drugs. ...
Prescribed tranquillisers are far more toxic, more addictive and kill more people in the UK than all the illegal class A drugs put together.
Pediatricians are prescribing growth hormone drugs to short children outside of the guidelines of the American Food and Drug Administration. Even though there is no scientific evidence that shows ...
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 ...
Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that animal tests are dangerous to human health, and may be the reason that so many 'safety tested' drugs cause so many side effects. ...
New data gleaned from a 12 year inquiry into the practices at two "centres of excellence" in the UK showed that children with Down's syndrome were given a lower priority for treatment, and that th ...
Just a few short months ago, cholesterol drugs were a dead duck. Studies began appearing showing that even after years of cholesterol drug consumption, patients were no better off in terms of prev ...
I recently underwent a radical prostate tomy in Athens. It was successful, and I praise the Greek surgeons. But was it necessary? When in the US I had decided to have a check up, since a recent PS ...
Encouraging junior doctors to acquire skills by 'practising' on dying patients has been condemned by many physicians in a new US study (BMJ, 2000; 320: 137). ...
Two kinds of therapies recently in the news have had very different coverage in the medical press, compared with the versions you and I are given in the daily newspapers. ...
