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...

Biopsy and barcode scanners - ‘ve been told that I need a uterine biopsy and wondered if you had any information on this procedure that may help me weigh up the pros and cons.

So you think you need . . . a diagnostic biopsy - One of the things conventional medicine prides itself on is its diagnoses. But much of the credit goes not to doctors, but to the technologists who ha...

Needle biopsy no good for melanoma - Sentinel node biopsy to check for systemic spread of malignant melanoma is cheap but is it really effective? ...

Tumours - Modern medicine has only its singleminded one-size-fits-all treatment for all types of tumours - with very little evidence of success. However, altern...

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...

Breast Cancer: Biopsies may be responsible for the rise in the over-50s - Breast cancer is on the increase – and it may be partly due to the use of biopsies, which test if tissue is cancerous.

So you think you need . . . a diagnostic biopsy - Safer detection techniques - * Lung: PET scans are just as accurate as biopsies, with no significant health risks (Appl Radiol, 2003; 32: 9-17). * Breast: MRI has variable accu...