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Health risks put a halt to hrt trial

A major HRT trial in the US has been halted because the combination of conjugated equine oestrogen (0.625 mg/ day) and medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg/day) (Prempro) simply did more harm than good... more »

Magnesium may halve the risk of eclampsia

A new, landmark study has shown that pregnant women with preeclampsia treated with magnesium sulphate can halve the risk of eclampsia (convulsions) and maternal death. more »

Experts concur that mmr is linked to bowel disease

Debate on the link between MMR, bowel disease and autism continues to rage, but new evidence increasingly indicates that children who develop ‘pervasive developmental disorder’ - PDD, more »

Probiotics may prevent diarrhoea due to antibiotics

The probiotics Lactobacillus and Saccharomyces boulardii (a yeast) are better than placebo in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, according to a recent meta-analysis. more »

Just-in-case insulin doesn’t prevent diabetes

Giving just-in-case insulin to prevent diabetes in high-risk individuals doesn’t work. A major US study - the Diabetes Prevention Trial-Type 1 Diabetes - was carried out to determine exactly this issu... more »

Side-effects only found after drugs hit the market

Keeping track of the potential side-effects of a new drug is a nightmare for the average GP in the UK. more »

Marrow transplants don’t work for breast cancer

Few stories in medicine are as sobering as the American experience with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) for treating breast cancer. It has been a disaster. more »

Breastfeeding does nurture smarter kids

How long you breastfeed your child could dictate how bright he will be in later life, claim researchers from Denmark. more »

Carelessness causes death in epileptic patients

There’s no excuse for sloppy care, especially of epilepsy patients, when seizure-control guidelines are set in stone. Yet the report of the National Sentinel Clinical Audit of Epilepsy-Related Death s... more »

Reflux screening unnecessary, say researchers

Best practice dictates that a patient aged over 50 with long-standing problems of gastric reflux should have an endoscopy - but a recent study has concluded that it’s yet another routine screening pro... more »

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