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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
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 Hubbard
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 Hubbard
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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Bryan Hubbard
March 22, 2023
Masking the truth: face masks don’t block the Covid virus
In the murky world of medical research (slogan: The result you want, guaranteed to the highest bidder), the one shining…

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Lynne McTaggart
March 16, 2023
Is energy healing the future of medicine?
If we had a dollar for everyone who has written in to tell us about their amazing new “quantum device,”…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 24, 2023
How much does your diet contribute to your risk of cancer?
How much does your food contribute to your risk of cancer? The most comprehensive study of this question, carried out…

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Bryan Hubbard
February 23, 2023
Doctor who questioned the Covid strategy loses her license
After more than 30 attempts, the medical goon squad finally got their man (or, in this case, feisty woman). Dr…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 11, 2023
Medicinal mouthfuls
That food can cure illness isn’t exactly a new idea. More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek physician Hippocrates, considered…

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Bryan Hubbard
January 9, 2023
Doctors are the least likely to take their own medicine as it’s prescribed
You’re given a prescription for a drug.  The illegible handwriting of the doctor tells you to take one pill 43…

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Lynne McTaggart
December 7, 2022
On aging well
I’ve just returned from the US, where I saw a batch of my close American girlfriends, who are mostly my…

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Bryan Hubbard
November 24, 2022
There are parallels between Covid measures and totalitarian states
My wife and I recently came back from Prague, where we celebrated our wedding anniversary (our 32nd, as you ask).…

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Lynne McTaggart
October 26, 2022
Getting out of the way of the body
Michelle Slater was one of those no-hoper medical cases. She’d contracted Lyme disease and gone to every possible doctor. As…

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Bryan Hubbard
October 26, 2022
Do mothers need science to help them soothe a crying baby?
You might have believed the old saying that “mother knows best.” But think again, it’s complete tosh—women don’t know anything…

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Lynne McTaggart
September 28, 2022
A miraculous stroke recovery
A few months ago, a friend of ours, Margaret Paul, told us about her associate Erika Chopich, who’d suffered a…

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Bryan Hubbard
September 28, 2022
Do statins cause muscle pain?
Great news! All those aches and pains you’ve been suffering while taking a cholesterol-lowering statin had nothing to do with…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 24, 2022
Scoundrel Time
In 1953, the award-winning and much-lauded American playwright and author Lillian Hellman was called to testify before the Committee on…

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Bryan Hubbard
August 24, 2022
Money first, health last
You can’t trust anyone these days, as no eagle-eyed WDDTY reader needs reminding. We need to treat the advisory guidance…

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Lynne McTaggart
June 24, 2022
Thinking away Alzheimer’s disease
In the late 1990s, Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and psychologist at the University of Wisconsin’s Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, flew…

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Bryan Hubbard
June 24, 2022
Don’t blame me
What’s the connection between medicine and the aeronautics industry? Sadly, there isn’t one— and medicine is definitely poorer for it.…

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Lynne McTaggart
May 25, 2022
Crazy ladies
Many years ago, I read an article in Esquire by Nora Ephron entitled “Dealing with the, uh, Problem,” about the…

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Lynne McTaggart
May 25, 2022
Not so dead
Just as religions have been telling us for millennia, something of us survives death. And now science is beginning to…

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Lynne McTaggart
April 26, 2022
Blood in the water
Dr Stephen Hussey, an American chiropractor, has a revolutionary view of the function of the heart. It’s not a pump,…

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Bryan Hubbard
April 26, 2022
You don’t say
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the Department of the Blindingly Obvious, which collates research that arrives at…

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