Vitamins: They can make you healthier (and grass may be green in a double-blind placebo study) - The understanding of nutrition plays a tiny part in a doctor’s education – in fact, it’s around one day out of a five-year programme – and so any stud...

Hospital Admissions: If you’re one of nine, try to cancel - A word to the wise: if you’re being admitted to hospital, check how many others are arriving on the same day. If it’s more than nine, try to make it...

Intravenous magnesium helps severe asthma - Yet another trial has confirmed the usefulness of intravenous magnesium therapy as a treatment for severe asthma, according to a new double-blind, pla...

Barking: Drug companies resort to double-blind placebo boys in suits with violin cases - Is UK Prime Minister Tony Blair still US President Bush’s poodle? We’ll soon find out following intensive lobbying by the White House to grant the Am...

The flu vaccine: a shot in the dark - With the colder weather coming in some of our readers are wondering if it s time to have that flu vaccine It s something that is usually pushed by...

Vaccine update: hiv, polio, flu - Three vaccines against HIV infection are to be tested on children in the US. Ninety healthy HIV infected children aged between 1 month and 12 years a...

Asthma: a breath of fresh air - If ever a disease were misunderstood by modern medicine, it is asthma. Although doctors finally have begun to accept that asthma may be caused by an a...

VACCINATION BIBLE - The Vaccination Bible provides the definitive evidence about the safety and effectiveness-or otherwise- of all the major vaccines, including the MMR a...