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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... more »
Radiation is one of the cornerstones of cancer treatment - but it can also cause cancer, as a new study has found. more »
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... more »
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... more »
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... more »
BACK PAIN Let your physio do the talking
It’s now proven that whatever good a physiotherapist can do will be done in the very first visit - and that's likely to be the simple advice to stay active. more »
COLITIS Aloe vera can ease symptoms
A new study has found that aloe vera may ease the pain of ulcerative colitis.
Of 44 patients with mild-to-moderate colitis, half were given 100 mL/day of aloe v... more »
Scientists testing the effectiveness of paracetamol vs a placebo in people with arthritic knees found a 52 per cent rate of success with both treatments. more »
Researchers have found that Helicobacter pylori can be caught from someone who has gastroenteritis and not just from infected food. more »
Harvard researchers have found that the hepatitis B vaccine can cause multiple sclerosis (MS). more »
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