September 17th, 20180793Regular readers will know that I enjoy a glass of wine. The wine industry is fascinating as is the history. After my recent trip to Italy, this has only grown....
July 30th, 20180936There is increasing interest in the over use of medical tests, medications and procedures. There has been a belief that more medicine equals better health. In reality it...
July 16th, 20180915Sometimes a person with cancer goes into remission and we do not know why. This does not mean it has not occurred. We don’t criticise them or suggest it better they...
May 17th, 20180890Personalised medicine, or pharmacogenomics, means targeting drugs and treatments based on a person’s genetics. This approach has significantly improved outcomes for...
March 5th, 201801083An advance over the last three decades has been evidence-based medicine. No longer do we do what we think is best or, heaven forbid, use clinical judgment. Trials and...
February 19th, 20180931It is little wonder that people are confused by health messages and the latest discovery. As I have observed before when you are certain that what causes cancer this...
December 14th, 20171932We share the same world as our pets, yet we do not perceive the same reality.
Both cats and dogs have only 20 per cent of the cone photo-receptor cells of humans,...
November 20th, 201701480When Galileo Galilei proposed that the earth revolved around the sun (heliocentrism), he was investigated by the Roman Inquisition, which concluded that heliocentrism...
October 9th, 201701757The use of antidepressants has exploded over the last 20 years. It is estimated that one in ten people in the USA is on them and as many as one in four women in their...
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