Drugs for weight loss - Medicine peddles two types of drugs to help us lose weight: amphetamines and drugs which act on the central nervous system as appetite suppressants. M...

Weight-loss Surgery: Nearly 3 per cent died afterwards - Nearly a third of obese people who die following weight-loss surgery do so by their own hand. Overall, nearly 3 per cent of patients who have the sur...

Weight Loss: Calories don’t count, good food does - The only way to lose weight, according to the prevailing calorie theory, is by exercising more or eating less because weight loss only happens when...

Study finds cancer patients expect radical treatment - Cancer patients expect radical treatment, even if there's little chance for success. That's the conclusion of a study of l06 recently diagnosed cancer...

Steroids for cancer patients - Patients with advanced cancer are being given steroids without monitoring or any clear benefit. ...

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Weight loss and low fat diets - One of the major risk factors for osteoporosis is being too thin. Once the ovaries stop producing oestrogen, a woman's body keeps on making small amou...

Chemotherapy - When it works, when it doesn't - To attempt to separate fact from the vast fiction propagated about both orthodox and alternative treatment of cancer, we have produced a special cance...