Vitamin e can help lower allergic reactions - New data suggest that supplementing with vitamin E can help lower rates of asthma, rhinitis and hayfever. ...

Hrt: new evidence shows link with endometrial cancer - The safety of unopposed low potency oestrogens, prescribed to treat urogenital symptoms in post menopausal women, is once again being questioned in n...

Stents: Back to the drawing board - Drug-eluting stents were supposed to be the great way forward in artery health in people with atherosclerosis, the disease where plaque narrows the ar...

Stents: 25 years on and specialists learn that lifestyle changes are just as effective - The stent has become part of the standard toolkit for the heart specialist. It’s a crude, but effective, device for ‘propping up’ arteries that may c...

Hrt new evidence of cancer risks - A major re-analysis of the worldwide evidence linking breast cancer with HRT has concluded that the risk of the disease increased in women using HRT a...

Avandia: It stays on the market despite new evidence of heart risk - Better safe than sorry is clearly not the motto of American’s drug ‘watchdog’, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after it allowed the anti-diabe...

Social audit's charles medawar, the uk's drugs watchdog, pieces together new evidence demonstrating that the new, so-called safer antidepressants like prozac could be habit-forming. - Over the past 200 years, doctors have prescribed an almost uninterrupted succession of 'addictive' drugs, always in the belief they would not cause de...

Mercury connection and alzheimer's: new evidence - Another study showing a possible link between mercury exposure and some forms of Alzheimer's disease has recently been published in the Journal of Neu...