What doctors read - Babies resulting from in vitro fertilization or GIFT assisted conception are eight times more likely to be born with cardiac malformations than those...

Ivf linked to cancer - Doctors are beginning to fear that assisted conception techniques such as IVF (in-vitro fertilization) could be causing cancers, especially ovarian ca...

Radiotherapy for brain tumours may cause brain damage - Although brain cancer has a reputation for being rapidly fatal, roughly half of them are much less virulent, with sufferers living as long as 20 years...

Clomid - Clomid (clomiphene) is a powerful and longstanding infertility drug but of late, research has been suggesting that it can cause birth defects. ...

'miracle' tumour surgery damages half of all patients - A special radiotherapy treatment for brain tumours, hailed as a miracle cure by the British press, is far from that, say two leading specialists.

Doctors differ in prescribing habits - The UK Drug Safety Research Unit has discovered massive variations in the quantity of drugs prescribed by individual doctors (The Lancet, 11 September...

Mobile phones: They increase cancer risk in children fivefold - Children and young adults have a five times greater risk of developing brain tumours from mobile phones than older people, a leading researcher believ...

Google: It’s the way doctors find out about your condition, just like you - What do you do when you want to find out more about a health problem? Right. You go on Google, or a similar search engine, and look through the resu...