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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
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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Lynne McTaggart
May 3, 2017
Back to the future
To eat or not to eat – that is the question. Or, to put it another way, what is the…

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Bryan
March 31, 2017
The spaces between facts
William Halsted is revered among surgeons. He died in 1922, and yet is still considered one of the most influential…

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Lynne McTaggart
March 31, 2017
A cleaner sweep
This magazine owes its start to dental fillings – my dental fillings. I’d had bad teeth as a kid –…

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Robert Verkerk
March 31, 2017
A sharp jab at safety claims
Vaccination is possibly the single most controversial issue in public health. Western medicine has devised a number of key strategies…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 23, 2017
Weak at the knees
At any moment, up to a third of us are struggling with pain in our knees. In a major US…

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Bryan
February 23, 2017
Sugar and spite
It’s a belief that still underpins our most popular weight-loss programmes and, if truth be told, somewhere deep down you…

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Robert Verkerk
February 23, 2017
Grains of truth
The BBC TV series Horizon has been exploring scientific issues affecting the British populace since 1964. It exposed whale meat…

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Bryan
January 24, 2017
Post-truth medicine
Last year was the start of something big, and it even gave birth to a new word: post-truth. Critics argued…

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Robert Verkerk
January 24, 2017
When dying is right
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is rated the fifth largest employer – not in the UK and Europe, but in…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 24, 2017
Combatting the lady killer
Medicine, we’re told, is feeling victorious about beating breast cancer, now that the incidence of heart disease has overtaken it…

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Robert Verkerk
December 29, 2016
Medical terrorism
In the last six weeks, I’ve met with leaders of ketogenic dietary approaches for cancer in Melbourne and London who…

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Robert Verkerk
November 30, 2016
The Trump effect in healthcare
At 35,000 feet over the Pacific between Sydney and LA, I’d hoped this view of our troubled planet offered greater…

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Bryan
November 30, 2016
Do nothing
It should be the golden rule of medicine (yet it’s never taught in medical school): first, do nothing. Instead, the…

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Bryan
October 27, 2016
The real med diet
Been down to the Med lately? If you have, you’ll have noticed that the locals don’t eat the Mediterranean diet…

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Lynne McTaggart
October 27, 2016
Not so little grey cells
Tell your doctor that you have to search harder to recall the names of distant friends or remember where you…

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Robert Verkerk
October 27, 2016
Brexit means Brexit…
The Conservative Party conference of early October marked the decision by British PM Theresa May to reveal her true sovereign…

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Robert Verkerk
October 14, 2016
Don’t believe the HPV hype
One week last September, the headlines exclaimed to the parents of young children that it was imperative to get their…

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Lynne McTaggart
October 14, 2016
The audacity of hope
For us, the story began in 1995 when Bryan’s 78-year-old mother, Edie, was diagnosed with end-stage breast cancer. Privately her…

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Lynne McTaggart
June 30, 2016
An immovable feast
We’ve not only been built to move; like a dog needing to be walked every day, our bodies need to…

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Bryan
November 27, 2015
Welcome to the new site
After several years of planning and coding, we’re proud to welcome you to the new WDDTY site. Many of the…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 24, 2015
The secret message of pain
We are a society gripped by constant pain of one sort or another-and life appears to be getting more painful…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 24, 2015
The quantum cook
Last month, WDDTY was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Annemarie Colbin, one of its panel members, a…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 24, 2015
The second brain
In 1992, after rediscovering a network of neurotransmitters in the gut that act in a similar way to ordinary neurons,…

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