July 30th, 20180772There 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, 20180796Sometimes 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, 20180784Personalised medicine, or pharmacogenomics, means targeting drugs and treatments based on a person’s genetics. This approach has significantly improved outcomes for...
March 5th, 20180969An 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, 20180804It 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, 20171796We 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, 201701249When Galileo Galilei proposed that the earth revolved around the sun (heliocentrism), he was investigated by the Roman Inquisition, which concluded that heliocentrism...
October 9th, 201701650The 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...
September 18th, 201702936Last week I wrote about the PURE study which followed over 135,000 people in 18 countries for seven years. It found that current dietary guidelines are essentially wrong...
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