Hodgkin's cases: cancer later - Children who are successfully treated for Hodgkin's disease are 18 times more likely to go on and develop secondary malignant tumours, while girls fac...

Common bone test may not detect osteoporosis - The accuracy of peripheral bone densitometry, the most commonly used diagnostic tool for diagnosing osteoporosis, has come under fire. ...

A drug for all reasons - Multiple prescriptions are often used as shortcuts or as devices to avoid responsibility for establishing an accurate diagnosis. ...

Myelography - The test that can disable - Myelograms are a diagnostic tool used before spinal surgery. A contrast medium or dye injected into the spinal canal space trickles into and around th...

Tumours - Modern medicine has only its singleminded one-size-fits-all treatment for all types of tumours - with very little evidence of success. However, altern...

A malignant mystery - 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...

Breast cancer findings faked - The largest trial in the US on breast cancer which began the shift away from mastectomy as the preferred treatment was falsified (BMJ, 26 March 1994)....

New findings about lowering fat - Amid our mania for all but cutting out fat from the diet, medical experts now confess that lowering cholesterol isn't such a good idea in preventi...