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...

Cold - not bugs - leads to high winter death rates - New evidence shows that being cold is responsible for more preventable (excess) deaths than the flu in winter.

Hospitals cause trank junkies - Stays in hospital are a major way of people getting hooked on tranquillizers or sleeping pills (benzodiazepines), according to a recent study. ...

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...

Probiotics reduce chest infections in children - Milk fortified with probiotics appears to modestly reduce the rate and severity of respiratory infections in children in daycare facilities, according...

Nurse, the screens: hospitals are killing too many patients - A hospital is no place to be if you re sick and new studies just released confirm this view A review of practices in hospitals in the UK has found...

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...

Taking the strain out of exercise - Exercising is one of the most important things people can do to promote ongoing physical and mental health. Some of us exercise regularly, some errati...