Cancer link: drugs for cholesterol - Cholesterol-lowering drugs may cause cancer, a possibility that doctors and regulators would have been aware of had they read the research properly.

Antioxidants and Cancer: Researcher admits she got it wrong - It was news when it was first revealed three years ago – and it was news again last week: antioxidant vitamins can speed up the development of cancer....

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Broccoli: How the miracle vegetable protects against prostate cancer - It’s been called the miracle vegetable – and now scientists are finally beginning to understand how broccoli is able to prevent diseases such as prost...

When miracles are almost routine - When AIDS victim Andrew Stimpson’s disease reversed itself, doctors called it a miracle. But a look at the research on spontaneous healing shows that...

'miracle' tumour surgery damages half of all patients - A special radiotherapy treatment for brain tumours, hailed as a miracle cure by the British press, is far from that, say two leading specialists.

Drug Research: Companies spend a tiny fraction on the poor and the developing world - Any of you who desperately cling to the hope that the pharmaceutical industry is there for the benefit of mankind need to look at the latest statistic...

Infertility drugs: cancer fear - Infertility drugs such as clomiphene can double or even triple the risk of developing ovarian cancer if taken for longer than a year, an important ne...