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The marketing of menopause

Until the 1960s, medicine was not much interested in the menopause. It was something which women patients were told they would simply have to put up with. Then as the psychotropic (mind altering) ... more »

Poison in the pool

During the UK's national Swimfit week in June I took my 14-month-old son to our local pool. It was so dirty I refused to take him in. Sunlight streaming in through the window illuminated a cloud o ... more »

Nutrition's long fight

The relevance of nutrition to health has been known since the Enlightenment. Before industrialization and processed food manufacturers, it was commonplace for doctors to treat conditions with diet ... more »

Starved like crazy

Until recently, the only available method of helping to balance the chemistry of the brain was through a variety of drugs, which tend to dampen emotional and mental activity with undesirable side ... more »

The politics of sunlight

It is the consensus of medical opinion that the risks of skin cancer, including malignant melanoma, are increased by exposure to the ... more »

Letting mothers lead

What do mothers want from midwives? Over the years, I have been privileged to listen to many mothers. No matter what their age or experience most want the same thing the woman they have read abou ... more »

Science with a blind spot

To vaccinate, or not to vaccinate that ought to be the question. Parents ostensibly have free choice when offered the opportunity to immunize their children against the childhood diseases. But ove ... more »

Implanting lies

Last month a judge in Birmingham, Alabama, approved a worldwide compensation deal of $4.25 billion for more than 90,500 women worldwide with silicone breast implants. The settlement, which is to c ... more »

Hormonal mayhem

The Second Opinion "Estrogen Overkill" by Californian general practitioner Dr John Lee (WDDTY vol 5 no 4) is a disturbing amalgam of fact and fiction. It is wrong to say that "the most common age ... more »

Estrogen overkill

There is a common misconception that at menopause, a woman no longer makes female hormones, that she has a deficiency disease, requiring estrogen replacement. The truth is that she merely makes le ... more »

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