How a Child's ADHD Affects Siblings

Having a child with ADHD means dedicating time to meeting their special needs, and to making sure that doesn't come at the expense of your other children.

Helpful Tips for Soothing Your Baby's Eczema

When your baby has itchy, scaly skin that makes her scratch all day and night, you want to do whatever you can to ease her discomfort. Fortunately, several effective eczema treatments can lead to a happier baby.

Vitamin D Pills: Is What You See What You Get?

Many vitamin D supplements may not contain what their label says they do, a new study warns.

Some pills may pack a lot more vitamin D than the label states, and others may provide markedly less, according to the findings, published in a research letter Feb. 11 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The researchers are more concerned by pills delivering too little of the vitamin than pills providing too much.

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The Tiny Plastic Beads that could Revolutionise Prostate Surgery - and End Post-op Impotence

Men facing prostate surgery could avoid post-operative impotence with a simple new treatment that uses microscopic plastic beads.

The procedure – called Prostate Artery Embolisation – is set to revolutionise how men with an enlarged prostate or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are treated.

At the moment, the standard treatment is to cut out a section of the swollen prostate. But complications are common following this operation, and every year thousands are left suffering with sexual dysfunction, incontinence, infection and bleeding.

Green Tea Extract 'Eradicates Cancer Tumours'

Powerful new anti-cancer drugs based on green tea could soon be developed after scientists found an extract from the beverage could make almost half of tumours vanish.

The University of Strathclyde team made 40 per cent of human skin cancer tumours disappear using the compound, in a laboratory study.

Green tea has long been suspected of having anti-cancer properties and the extract, called epigallocatechin gallate, has been investigated before.

Controversial Blood Test 'Cuts Prostate Cancer Deaths'

A controversial blood test for prostate cancer may have significantly improved the survival prospects of patients diagnosed with advanced disease, research has shown.

Scientists identified a reduced risk of dying of almost a third since the widespread introduction of the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The PSA test identifies a protein in the blood that can signify the presence of prostate cancer.

Critics say the test is too unreliable to be used for routine screening, which is why there is no automatic PSA testing in the UK.

Instead, it is used on a case by case basis with men who exhibit symptoms.

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NHS Won't Pay for Child Cancer Treatment that 'Cuts Deaths by 25%'

Some British parents are taking their children to the US to receive a three-drug treatment for neuroblastoma, a cancer that affects around 100 children a year in the UK.

The NHS is reportedly refusing to fund a treatment for one of the most common cancers suffered by children.

Your Prostate Cancer Treatment Options

The outlook for men diagnosed with prostate cancer has never been brighter. Doctors now have a variety of ways to treat prostate cancer, including surgery, radiation, and drugs that slow the growth of cancer cells. Both the safety and effectiveness of prostate cancer treatments has been steadily improving.