This was medical dogma; it was the truth.

CHALLENGING medical dogma but supporting doctors' observations, a new report shows that many girls are starting puberty far earlier than is widely considered normal.

Following medical dogma, Croft restricted her diet and bled her during the pregnancy.

A long-standing medical dogma holds that cancer cells constantly develop in the body but that a healthy immune system fights them off.

In the seven months since an Australian man received a new hand and forearm in France, he has defied medical dogma.

Until recently, medical dogma also held that the brain could not grow new cells.

Two Australian scientists who upset medical dogma by discovering a bacterium that causes stomach inflammation, ulcers and cancer won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine yesterday.

Outdated medical dogma also causes many people to refuse painkillers.

As the nation has its first, terrifying experience with anthrax and biological terrorism, medical dogma is being rewritten overnight.

Two new large studies are likely to upset medical dogma on treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregularity of the heartbeat that can lead to debilitating strokes and other life-threatening complications.