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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...

Toxic chemicals make killer make up

New evidence shows that teenagers are highly polluted with chemicals from cosmetics, causing early puberty and possibly even bigger problems later on....

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...