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Get an insight into what’s really going on in medicine and healthcare with the latest thoughts and opinions from our editorial team

Lynne McTaggart
September 20, 2024
A feast for the brain
The other day we were having lunch with the amazing Gina Lazenby, bestselling author, speaker and mentor for women leaders…

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Bryan
September 20, 2024
Spot the error The “safe” wonder drug for Alzheimer’s is neither
I used to get a weekly email letter from a marketing copywriter who would deliberately put a grammar or spelling…

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Bryan
August 15, 2024
The airplane that couldn’t fly
Medicine doesn’t cure—and that’s a big problem In an alternate universe, the science of aeronautics was lauded. It was praised,…

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Bryan
June 24, 2024
How to rule the world
Novo Nordisk is the world’s fastest-growing pharmaceutical company—with one drug Dear avaricious, egotistical, money-mad humans (yup, that pretty much covers…

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Bryan
May 29, 2024
What’s up, doc? Robots are beating medics in making a correct diagnosis
You laypeople need to understand that a correct diagnosis isn’t all that important to the modern doctor. A wrong diagnosis…

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Lynne McTaggart
May 20, 2024
The end of Frankenbelly
Dr William Davis, a cardiologist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had an aha moment after discovering how modern wheat was grown.…

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Lynne McTaggart
April 24, 2024
The all-purpose elixir  
We’ve all been raised on the idea of the inevitability of progress in every area of human endeavor. Thanks to our natural ingenuity, things, we…

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Bryan
April 15, 2024
Science for sale
Academics are paying to have their studies published   Robust is an adjective that was once reserved for stout hiking…

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Bryan
March 21, 2024
I don’t remember it well
The WHO is planning to shape the global response to the next pandemic There’s a saying that if you remember…

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Lynne McTaggart
March 21, 2024
Clearing the air
We do it every day without thinking—in, out, on average 7.5 million times a year. And we think that if we just get…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 26, 2024
Don’t shoot the messenger
The problem with being early messengers of information is that nobody believes them until it’s too late. And these days, they’re not just ignored…

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Bryan
February 21, 2024
Why measles is back
Anti-vaxxers shouldn’t be blamed for the latest epidemic Infectious diseases are like economic cycles. They ebb and flow over time,…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 22, 2024
Chewing the fat—and more 
We are a civilization of terrible teeth. I say this with some personal knowledge, because with the exception of the four front teeth on the…

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Bryan
January 17, 2024
I’m sorry, I’ll read that again
The good news about the HPV vaccine was actually bad news What’s not to like about the HPV vaccine? Not…

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Lynne McTaggart
December 5, 2023
Shredding wheat
In my mid-30s, I got ill with a range of multiplying symptoms: a bad gut, hormones causing havoc, eczema and…

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Bryan
November 28, 2023
Not so random
New research into the Spanish flu outbreak puts a medical myth to bed Who gets ill? Anyone, says the doctor,…

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Bryan
October 30, 2023
Chinese takeaways
The UK is starting to manipulate its own viruses after the Covid Wuhan leak Bryan Hubbard News just in from…

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Lynne McTaggart
October 17, 2023
C is for cure-all
In 1948, just three years after the end of the Second World War, an earlier pandemic than Covid gripped America.…

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Bryan
September 26, 2023
Not so quiet on the Covid front
The young suffered unjustified consequences for Covid vaccines and lockdowns You may have seen the recent Oscar-nominated movie All Quiet…

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Lynne McTaggart
June 7, 2023
Healing the long-haulers
When Covid first struck, doctors around the world rushed to come up with a solution. Chief among them were a…

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Lynne McTaggart
May 16, 2023
Air and water
Camilla Sherr has an extraordinarily green thumb. When her mother’s apple tree became infested with moths, she and her husband…

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Bryan
May 9, 2023
Relative risk makes a drug seem effective when it’s not
Ban All Relatives. Hope you like our new campaign and will join BAR in getting rid of them. No, we’re…

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Lynne McTaggart
April 19, 2023
Looking forward to…nothing
When Prozac was launched in 1987, this new breed of antidepressant, called an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor), was heralded…

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Bryan
April 17, 2023
The drugs are lovely!
Wicked World Update #4576: For years, Big Pharma has been able to go directly to America’s Joe and Jane Public…

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