An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation co-worker would like your opinion on the use of magnets to treat pain. In particular, she says her mother has gotten relief by using a magnet — I believe it’s ...

Magnetic therapy, long derailed as pseudoscience, has just gotten a boost from a biomedical study showing how magnets can reduce swelling. The study will likely impress manufacturers of magnetic ...

A constant annoying ringing in the ears – called tinnitus - didn't go away when researchers tried zapping patients' heads with magnetic waves in a recent study. The researchers still think magnetic ...

It can be an all too common scenario for certain stroke survivors. They can't see or recognize anything on one side of their body. This condition often occurs after a stroke on the right side of the ...

Redness of the skin in contact with the magnet has been reported, but most cases self-resolve within 24 hours of removal of the device. Patients who use cardiac pacemakers, implanted automatic ...

Magnets to treat depression? It may sound bizarre, but this treatment is now available on the NHS. It’s called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS. People who have tried antidepressants but they ...

LONDON: The use of magnetic devices to cure a variety of ills has soared in recent years but there is no evidence they work, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. The market for ...

I have mixed feelings about many alternative medical practices. We get lots of people that come in and ask about the most random stuff, and people who will swear by their remedy of choice, even though ...

It was last year during the lockdown when I got diagnosed with hypothyroidism, a condition of the underactive thyroid gland in which your thyroid gland fails to produce/synthesise sufficient thyroid ...