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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

Bryan
December 21, 2017
It’s all a Wonderland
Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice might have said if she’d seen some of the research papers that have been passing…

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Lynne McTaggart
December 21, 2017
Blame it on the back
There’s a medical problem out there that threatens to outstrip the cost of treatments for all types of cancers combined,…

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Lynne McTaggart
November 21, 2017
Metal fatigue
Medicine is baffled by Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and thus far, no matter how great the fanfare about amazing new breakthroughs,…

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Robert Verkerk
November 21, 2017
Dirty medicine down under
I am writing this column some 40,000 feet above Indonesia, bound from Sydney, Australia, to London. After a tight schedule…

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Bryan
November 21, 2017
Fake real news
In more innocent times, there was news, pure and simple. We believed most of what we were told in newspapers…

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Robert Verkerk
October 25, 2017
When conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact
The terms ‘public health’ and ‘consumer protection,’ as used by governments, are among the biggest misnomers of all time. Governments…

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Lynne McTaggart
October 25, 2017
Curing from the cupboard
Desperate times call for desperate measures – a thought generally attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates, the father of medicine,…

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Bryan
October 25, 2017
Chinese delivery
The Economist magazine has recently been voted the world’s most trusted news source, but even such a highly rated title…

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Robert Verkerk
September 26, 2017
Rethinking the HPV vaccine
We’ve been fed multiple mistruths about the safety of the vaccine, says Rob Verkerk With people losing faith in pharmaceutical…

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Bryan
September 26, 2017
Reasonable doubt
Proof of vaccine damage is now down to common sense. Courts of law deal in probabilities. If the defendant pleads…

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Lynne McTaggart
September 26, 2017
The healing power of a group
For many years, I refused to write about the strange healings that were happening in my workshops because I didn’t…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 29, 2017
Reversing the irreversible
Treatment of type 1 diabetes is touted as a great medical success story – a condition considered long-since conquered, ever…

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Bryan
August 29, 2017
Quiet as mice
I’m not a mouse; nor, I suspect, are you (unless you’re a highly intelligent one who reads our magazine when…

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Robert Verkerk
August 29, 2017
Blue zone thinking – The politics of health
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Dr Michel Poulain in Guernsey, a small island off the coast of northern…

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Robert Verkerk
July 21, 2017
How to fix the NHS
The key is building a parallel system of preventative care, says Rob Verkerk The sooner our politicians stop thinking that…

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Bryan
July 21, 2017
Don’t trust me (I’m Big Pharma)
When you start something, are you prepared to see it through to the bitter end? Whatever the outcome or consequences?…

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Lynne McTaggart
July 21, 2017
Seeing clearly now
Ask most doctors why people develop eye diseases like glaucoma, cataracts and macular degeneration, and they’ll blame it on the…

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Robert Verkerk
June 26, 2017
All brawn and no beef
I recently visited the BodyPower Expo at the NEC in Birmingham, billed as the “world’s number 1 fitness expo”. I…

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Lynne McTaggart
June 26, 2017
Mental starvation
Entire industries in modern medicine – psychiatry, the drug industry, even many therapeutic arms of psychology – are predicated on…

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Bryan
June 26, 2017
Thinking makes it so
Here’s a very radical thought: suppose it’s all placebo. Does the thought that a remedy will work actually make it…

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Lynne McTaggart
May 24, 2017
A mental adjustment
Despite being the world’s most popular form of alternative treatment, chiropractic has lately had a bad press, particularly in the…

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Robert Verkerk
May 24, 2017
Scan or scandal?
You’re running late for a flight and when you get to security, you hope to get diverted to the manual…

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Bryan
May 24, 2017
First mad, then destroyed
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Medicine’s governing bodies – those who determine the truth…

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Bryan
May 3, 2017
Prove it!
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) groups could soon lose their tax-advantageous charitable status in the UK unless they can demonstrate…

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