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To every child a season

For most of the last two terms, my youngest daughter Anya, now seven, has been struggling at school, particularly with maths. And although she could learn spelling perfectly, she was also struggling w... more »

A brighter future - chicago style

One of the great movie characters of all time is Sean Connery’s Oscar-winning performance as Jimmy Malone, the streetwise Chicago beat cop in The Untouchables, and whenever I’m in a David vs Goliath s... more »

What is cancer?

In the wake of our Cancer Battle Plan conference, I got to thinking again about cancer and what it means to be a victim of the most complex and most untreatable (in conventional terms) illness of our... more »

Only connect

Everywhere I look in medicine these days, I am seeing improbable connections. In our cover story this month, we’ve discovered that macular degeneration tends to be present in people with heart prob... more »

Cherchez la pharm

There’s a old sexist saying in France that if you want to discover the cause of a problem, cherchez la femme - find the woman. But, if the problem is medical, I say cherchez la pharm - find the drug. more »

Living with the enemy

The other day, at a checkup for our puppy Ollie, I was having a word with our holistic vet about all the unmentionables that go with dog-owning: dirt, worms, fleas and stools. more »

A little light magic

Every doctor envisages himself as engaged in an unholy war against the tyrannical, all-engulfing enemy, the Sauron of modern disease. more »

Breast cancer: and now the good news. . .

Our cover story this month reveals the astonishing fact that the most frequently diagnosed type of breast cancer is not cancer at all, but a ‘something’ that has gone slightly awry, but which, in the... more »

Give ’em the old razzle-dazzle . . ..

Billy Flynn would have been devastated. For once, the ol’ razzle-dazzle just didn’t work. GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s largest drug conglomerate, which has grown fatter and fatter acquiring pharmaceutica... more »

Revising the notion of ‘family’

Although Christmas is virtually synonymous with the patter of tiny feet, for the 10 per cent of couples who just cannot produce a baby, it is perhaps the starkest reminder of a deep hole in their live... more »

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