Brain damage - While on holiday in an inaccessible part of the African coast a year ago, my 18-year-old grandson contracted septicaemic meningitis, which he survived...

Aluminium in the water may cause brain damage - A new retrospective study has shown that exposure to aluminium sulphate via the water supply can cause considerable brain damage. ...

Ultrasounds and brain damage - New findings support the belief that ultrasound has the capacity to damage unborn babies (BMJ, 17 July 1993). ...

Dpt vaccine: new brain damage - Yet another side effect has been linked to the diptheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT) vaccine for children. Researchers are concerned that children can d...

Causal link between left handedness and brain damage offensive - In an article on ultrasound (vol 4 no 5), you state that left handedness may indicate "brain damage".

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...

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...

Radiotherapy for brain tumours may cause brain damage - Although brain cancer has a reputation for being rapidly fatal, roughly half of them are much less virulent, with sufferers living as long as 20 years...