Case study: Smear test - abnormal cells - Nine years ago, as a healthy 23 year old, I was leading a fairly typical stressful life, working long hours, rushing to Yoga classes and weight traini...

A new smear test - Perhaps it’s because we’ve now reached a reasonable size, or maybe it’s because we seem to have more influence these days. It may even be because word...

Organ transplant patients risk drug resistant virus - Analysis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease among 240 liver, kidney and pancreas recipients has shown that the incidence of CMV is higher than previousl...

Donor organs may transplant disease - A rethink on organ transplants is needed after a 29 year old patient developed cancer after receiving a liver from a woman who had died from a brain t...

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Transplants damaged during retrieval - Kidneys for transplant are often damaged during organ retrieval, an increasing but underreported problem that may be exacerbating the drastic shortage...

Psoriasis - Chemical overkill - Frustrated in its attempt to cure this puzzling complaint, medicine reaches for ever more potent concoctions from cancer drugs to those for organ tran...

Smear tests not saving lives - Although women are pressurized to have a cervical smear test, a major new official study shows it is ineffective. ...