Contact dermatitis - Q I would like your advice for the son of a friend of mine. James, 22, had eczema as a child. His passion in life is motorcycles and, thus, he comes i...

Guinea pigs are we - Often, the short-term clinical trials, which also often involve only small numbers of ‘healthy’ patients don’t uncover the worst side-effects, which t...

Drug Trials: Drug co accused of using critically ill children as ‘guinea pigs’ - Pfizer are back in the dock again, this time for testing an experimental drug on children during a deadly meningitis outbreak. The drug giant faces a...

Are rats good guinea pigs? - Anyone who doubted the idiocy of animal experimentation for medical purposes might ponder the following test which sets out to show if exercise can im...

Baby Foods: What's Best for Baby? - We all know we’re experimental guinea pigs for the food industry. The thousands of additives and pesticides that form part of our daily fare mean that...

Vaccinations: - It's not so simple - Vaccination is based on the tried and trusted scientific principle of cause and effect: the vaccine (the cause) offers protection (the effect). It's...

Toxic toiletries - Facing up to the truth - The glossy images we're fed by the media hide a dangerous secret: most of our toiletries, even the "natural variety", are made up of the same harsh,...

Contact lens sight scare - Contact lens cases of the future may carry a warning: "This product could cause blindness." ...