Children who avoid modern medicine are healthier - Children who eschew many of the staples of modern medicine, such as vaccines and antibiotics, are less likely to develop atopic allergies, according t...

Say no to new drugs - When your doctor reaches for his prescription pad, possibly the most important question you can ask is the age of the drug he’s about to prescribe you...

Doctor Training: Drug companies invest in their salesforce - Ever wondered why doctors usually reach for the prescription pad, rather than thinking of other – and less toxic – alternatives?

Bullying Doctors: It’s how they were taught - Ever wondered why doctors tend to bully and belittle you? It’s because they had just the same treatment dished out to them while they were at medical...

Damaged lungs: untested treatment - Adults with injured lungs are being subjected to procedures which are largely untested and unproven, according to an editorial in the British Medical...

The latest antidepressants - The arrival of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), such as Prozac, in the early 1990s was greeted by the medical profession as the fi...

Talking: the best antidepressant - People suffering from major depression can be helped just as well by facing up to and solving their problems as by taking antidepresssants. ...

Antidepressants: - Now they face the typographical device - When a drug is dangerous - it might be known to kill or seriously injure - the regulators act quickly and decisively. And they don't pull their punch...