Treating the common cold - After the season of cheer and beer, Comes champagne and the New Year. You’re sailing high, you’re feeling bold. A fortnight later, you feel queer,...

The common cold - This greatest bugbear of an upper respiratory tract infection is usually caused by bacteria or viruses, or even occasionally, allergic reactions.

Beta blockers are no better than a sugar pill - Although beta blockers have been used for over 30 years to treat high blood pressure in elderly people, new analysis has discovered that the drugs are...

Hospital Admissions: If you’re one of nine, try to cancel - A word to the wise: if you’re being admitted to hospital, check how many others are arriving on the same day. If it’s more than nine, try to make it...

Heart attack: What can happen to you 12 months later - There’s one thing that may very well happen to you if you suffer a heart attack, and it’s something doctors almost never warn you about.

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ADHD: It could just be a breathing problem - If you know a child with learning difficulties or who’s hyperactive, the chances are that he or she also suffers from breathing problems at night.

Bring an ill child to hospital and he could get worse.... - That's the message of a recent New England Journal of Medicine report, which traced a recent outbreak of a bacterial infection (enterococcus faecalis)...