Medial Artilces

- Why Medical Studies Are Often Wrong How many times have you heard people exclaim something like, "First they tell us this is good or bad for us, and then they tell us just the opposite"?... - Another way to cut medical costs: Split your pills Split your pills More health insurers are endorsing the practice, but some physicians say it's risky. Smart shoppers can't resist a two-for-one sale... - Smaller Tumors Boost Breast Cancer Survival According to a new study, a lot of the advancement in breast cancer survival in recently is due to average tumor being smaller, not due to treatments being better... - Which Patients Will Not Respond to Treatment with Targeted Cancer Drug? By the time the human genome was mapped, cancer researchers had already begun investigating the proteins that were encoded by these newly identified genes... - Drug addiction - Death by Ecstasy Scientists have identified a key protein involved in one of the most lethal side effects of the popular but illegal drug ecstasy. Most ecstasy-related deaths are...

- U.S. Emergency, Trauma Care System Unprepared for Terrorist Attacks, Disease Outbreaks, Op-Ed Says
While the federal government has devoted "billions in taxpayer dollars" to prepare the US for the possibility of a bioterrorist attack, the nation's...

- Ecstasy Might Cause Brain Damage
There's more evidence that the wildly-popular, feel-good "rave" drug known as ecstasy can have potentially devastating...

- Rhapsody so blue, the downside of ecstasy
Research suggests designer drug may cause brain damage. THE past week has been an important time for both those...

- FEATURE: Malaysians sober up to dangers of ecstasy
What began as a weekend drug for yuppies in Malaysia's trendy nightspots has become the latest nightmare for authorities in the country,...

- Law Report: Court ruling against whooping cough claim
Queen's Bench Division Loveday v Renton and another Before Mr Justice Stuart-Smith March 29 and 30 1988...

- Heroin brain damage rising
The number of victims of heroin-induced brain damage, who are sometimes left blind, paralysed or incontinent, has increased dramatically in...

- Look Health: Whooping cough - to vaccinate or not? / The risks of whooping cough and vaccination
THE DECISION whether or not to immunise a child against whooping cough is one of the most agonising that parents have to take. On the one hand frightening stories...

- Harefield sued over brain damage
MATTHEW POYNTER was such a lively, happy baby that the management of Harefield hospital in west London chose to feature him in a promotional video...

- Doctors testify brain damage came from blows
A DOCTOR from Britain has told the High Court in Dublin that he considered a Co Dublin man, who is claiming he was beaten violently by gardai, had sustained...

- Excluding addiction from mental health services
Madam, - The report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy, "A Vision for Change", has determined that people with drug and alcohol addictions will...

- Urgency addiction can put you on road to ruin
Urgency addiction can put you on road to ruin. Those who rely on an adrenaline rush at work are at risk, writes...

- JOIN THE CLUB; Court regular Pete Doherty is the capital's most high-profile addict
The psychology of addiction is a boom industry. Theories to explain our growing dependence, on everything from drugs to diamonds, include one claiming...

- All About Depression
In any given 1-year period, 9.5 percent of the population, or about 18.8 million American adults, suffer from a depressive illness