Lung disease - Q my dad has just been diagnosed with silicosis as a result of working in tunnels for 10-15 years. - He experiences shortness of breath, lack of energy and sleeplessness. His lungs recently filled with nearly two litres of fluid that had to be drained...

Steroids pose threat to newborn health - Early treatment with the corticosteroid dexamethasone, even at moderate doses, doesn't help prevent chronic lung disease or mortality in extremely low...

Ms sufferers helped by b12 - Multiple sclerosis sufferers have much lower levels of unsaturated vitamin B12 and its binding capacity than do healthy people, researchers have disco...

Asthma sufferers: heart problems - Asthma sufferers who use beta-agonist inhalers run twice the risk of dying from a heart condition than those using other treatments. ...

MS ‘Wonder’ Drug: Hopes dashed as trials discover it’s no better than placebo - New multiple sclerosis (MS) ‘wonder’ drug Rituxan doesn’t work, the manufacturer has admitted. A two-year study has discovered that it is no better t...

Pulmonary hypertension - Q:I am a 58-year-old woman with pulmonary hypertension (blood clots in the lungs). I am at my wit's end. My doctors have virtually given up on me, s...

Parkinson's: Drugs turn sufferers into compulsive gamblers - Dopamine agonist drugs seem to have a very strange effect on sufferers of Parkinson’s disease – they become compulsive gamblers.

Asthma: a breath of fresh air - If ever a disease were misunderstood by modern medicine, it is asthma. Although doctors finally have begun to accept that asthma may be caused by an a...