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News meningitis - Vaccine linked to life-threatening reaction Menactra, one of the two meningitis vaccines available in the US, may cause Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a serious neurological disorder. News heart caren - Doing less is doing more A heart patient can look forward to an invasive package of drugs, early coronary angiography and revascularisation. Radiation: it’s worse than you were told How much radiation can a human being face before it becomes a carcinogen? Q&a tinnitus and syringing - Tinnitus treatments The idea of a link between inadequate vitamin A and hearing disorders was initially treated with suspicion, reflected by its being confined to animal studies and observations. But it was resurrected 1... Booster vaccine: one jab too many? The US drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has approved a new booster shot of the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccine, even though it is the vaccine with the most repo... Q&a sebaceous cysts - Getting rid of cysts naturally sebaceous cysts, epidermoid cysts, skin growths, acupuncture, star points, Vitex agnus castus, expulsion, reabsorption, benzoyl peroxide, herbal poultice, homoeopathy, Silicea, Echinacea Main feature - The new cancer theories Why do people get cancer? With 500,000 Americans and 100,000 Britons dying of the disease every year, it’s a fair-enough question. Unfortunately, medicine is concerned more with treating it - with an... Femoral fractures: pins better than casts A recent study has revealed that pins are more effective than casts in healing fractures of the femur in children. A group of 101 children aged 4 to 10 years who were admitted to one of four paediatri... Radiographs: it’s all in the reading Medical screening isn’t an area of healthcare that covers itself in glory. Too many tests come up with false positives and false negatives, a recent study has discovered. A hundred clinicians in Russi... Drugs drug alerts - Asthma drugs: they are safe, really, aren’t they? When it comes to drug safety, how safe is safe? Take, for instance, three beta-agonist bronchodilators that have been used by asthma sufferers. One, Serevent (salmeterol xinafoate) was first suspected...

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Blog Speak

30 Apr 2013 | Adverse Reactions (Caitlin Hubbard)

Back to the future

When Lynne’s mother was 24, her dentist unwisely extracted a tooth while she had the flu. Within days her neck had ballooned with a streptococcal infection and she was rushed to hospital. Lynne&... more »

8 Feb 2013 | Adverse Reactions (bshubbard)

They're not even wrong

There’s a breathtakingly ignorant comment that has done the rounds of late, and it goes like this: there are only two types of medicine, that which works and alternative medicine. ... more »

17 Jan 2013 | Adverse Reactions (bshubbard)

Miracles of the demi-gods

Medicine seems to divide itself between the miraculous interventions and the mundane. The latter is all the things medicine isn’t very good at: the nagging, chronic problems that are made... more »

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Forum Discussions

19:41 | Health Conditions (prioris@excite.com)

Re: Lack of response to curren...

This is not a vaccine failure. Vaccines are doing precisely what the state wants. People who think these are just mistakes, failures or errors are still not fully awake. This is crimes of humanity aga... more »

11:35 | Health Conditions (Edwina Lane)

Repetitive Corneal Erosion Syn...

I have this and am using the prescribed drops and night ointment but the eyeball is still painful upon waking. The ripped area was stated to be healed but the location visible when an Opthalmolo... more »

11:17 | Health Conditions (KiwiGal)

Re: gabapentin

Hi, I don't know if you're still reading this since it's been a while since you posted (and a while since I've been on the site) but - you've got to be joking!! All you have to do ... more »

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