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Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure Medicine is more often a belief system than a science, and doctors invariably cling to practices they know and love, irrespective of the data. Take, for instance, the pulmonary-artery catheter, which... Beta-blockers - more spin means more deaths If you go to your doctor with high blood pressure, it’s very likely he’ll give you a drug called a beta-blocker. For the past 10 years, it’s been considered the ‘gold-standard treatment’ for high bloo... Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure Medicine is more often a belief system than a science, and doctors invariably cling to practices they know and love, irrespective of the data. Take, for instance, the pulmonary-artery catheter, which... Beta-blockers - more spin means more deaths If you go to your doctor with high blood pressure, it’s very likely he’ll give you a drug called a beta-blocker. For the past 10 years, it’s been considered the ‘gold-standard treatment’ for high bloo... Chronic pain Is it caused by vitamin deficiency?Could vitamin deficiency be the cause of chronic pain? One study found that one in seven people from South Asia who are living in the UK suffer from perpetual chroni... Longevity Women aren’t living longer than menWomen are no longer enjoying longer lives than men. Their greater longevity is being eroded by adopting a lifestyle that is more like men’s, especially by drinking m... Cancer wonder drug kill or cure? In the clamour to get the new breast-cancer wonder drug Herceptin available on the UK’s National Health Service, everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that it is very dangerous. It causes life-threat... Cancer - radiotherapy causes it, too Radiation is one of the cornerstones of cancer treatment - but it can also cause cancer, as a new study has found. News * Nipple-piercing may give women more than just a bit of soreness. A few weeks after being pierced, one healthy, non-pregnant 20-year-old spontaneously produced breastmilk News * Patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among the elderly in developed countries, lose their sight because the central portion

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31 May 2013 | Adverse Reactions (Caitlin Hubbard)

A Long Shot

L ast January, after sustaining an injury to one knee during a particularly heated hockey match, our 16-year-old daughter Anya, a sports scholar, was handed the diagnosis most dreaded by athletes of a... more »

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 »

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This is a case for energy medicine, such as BodyTalk (www.bodytalksystem.com). There is no point in treating symptoms as there is an underlying imbalance which could be emotional, mental, physical or ... more »

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