Pacemakers: missing the beat - Doctors reach for this mechanical miracle to sort out all manner of cardiac irregularities, but problems with pacemakers are legion from design flaws...

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...

Bloated abdomen - A 12-year-old girl has had a long-term problem with a bloated abdomen, which is slightly smaller in the morning and increases during the day, but neve...

Faulty pacemakers and defibrillators have safety recall - Between 1990 and 2000, more than 500,000 pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in the US were subject to manufacturer safety a...

Pacemakers: Manufacturers sell devices they know are faulty - Pacemakers are being fitted to patients even when the manufacturer knows they are faulty, and may even be fatal. A leading expert says manufacturers...

Stress may cause diseases in later life - Many of the diseases we associate with ageing - such as heart disease, cancer, dementia and stroke - may be the result of lifelong, poorly managed str...

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...

Fungal skin diseases - There are only a few fungal infections that are capable of producing systemic disease such as candidiasis. However, a number of superficial types of f...