Smallpox vaccine: shots for all - The smallpox vaccine is back in the news this week with plans to inoculate all careworkers in case of a bioterrorist attack Although it s unlikely...

Cox-2 inhibitors - The COX (cyclooxygenase)-2 inhibitors, also known as ‘selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs’ (NSAIDs), have long been touted as being safer...

Silicon patches for scars - I'd be grateful if you could do some research on the Cica-Care system which claims to improve the appearance of scars. I'm considering using it for my...

After-jab exhaustion - Thousands of UK children are now being injected with the measles/rubella vaccine, regardless of previous immunizations and discounting any natural imm...

Healing wounds and reducing scars - Although we think our bodies handle healing automatically, much depends on our nutritional status. A high-fat diet or malnutrition/malabsorption, part...

A disease of doctors - When we think of pneumonia, we see it as a complicated and dangerous infection caused by bugs ‘in the air’. But there are a number of disparate, but c...

Homeopathic management of Asthma and Eczema - Q:"I'd like to respond to Dr John Mansfield's answer to your correspondent, C.P., who enquired about the homoeopathic management of asthma and eczema....

Eczema: - Several helpful tips for last week's reader who wanted to know what she could do to help her baby's eczema. One mother whose tot also suffered from a...