What it does: Chiropractors specialise in the diagnosis and treatment of illness due to mechanical dysfunction of joints and muscles. This is done through gentle manipulation, although it can feel quite forceful, as your bones make loud cracking noises — caused by gas bubbles. The manipulation is designed to realign the skeleton, free the joints [...]
Traditional immunotherapy for severe grass-pollen hay fever involves a three-year course of up to 50 injections, and these are done in hospital as they can cause an allergic reaction. Researchers are now investigating a new sort of immunotherapy that simply involves dissolving a grass-pollen tablet (Grazax) under the tongue each day for four months before [...]
People with unusual shortness of breath are more likely to die from heart disease than those with angina (pain beneath the breastbone, for example on exertion), or with no symptoms, say researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California. They followed up 17,991 people who’d had heart tests. Those with breathlessness but no heart disease were [...]
