July 16th, 20180297Sometimes 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, 20180458Personalised medicine, or pharmacogenomics, means targeting drugs and treatments based on a person’s genetics. This approach has significantly improved outcomes for...
March 5th, 20180659An 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, 20180547It 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, 20171463We 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, 20170829When Galileo Galilei proposed that the earth revolved around the sun (heliocentrism), he was investigated by the Roman Inquisition, which concluded that heliocentrism...
October 9th, 201701365The 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, 201702391Last 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...
September 11th, 2017116624There was a time when we believed the earth was the centre of the universe. To be honest, it was not unreasonable for people in the dark ages to accept this. The...
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