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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
June 27, 2014
Beyond your genes
When it comes to cancer, modern medicine is in firm denial. For all the triumphalism over the latest claims that…

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Bryan
May 30, 2014
Catching it early
It’s all over the newspapers. Deaths from breast cancer have almost been halved, and the bow belongs to screening with…

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Bryan
April 28, 2014
Farsighted
Failing eyesight has become so closely associated with old age that medicine has applied a number of adjectives synonymous with…

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Bryan
March 31, 2014
Inventing the problem
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith was one of the first to identify ‘revised-sequence’ markets which, unlike the ordinary consumer-driven variety, are…

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Bryan
February 28, 2014
Back-door solutions
The statistics speak for themselves. At some point, 85 per cent of us will suffer from back pain and yet…

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Bryan
February 3, 2014
The third diabetes
Governments of the West have finally woken up to the fact that we have an epidemic of dementia on our…

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Bryan
December 23, 2013
Beyond three score and 10
A few years ago, we asked a bold question: what are the key ingredients to a long and healthy life?…

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Bryan
November 29, 2013
Light in the darkness
Increasingly, those at the very centre of Establishment medicine are joining the ranks of whistleblowers like What Doctors Don’t Tell…

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Bryan
November 5, 2013
The inconvenient truth
A small group of people tried to prevent you from reading this issue ofWhat Doctors Don’t Tell You. They pressurized…

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Bryan
September 26, 2013
White mischief
If we were asked to name the deadliest weapon dispersed during the 20th century, we wouldn’t choose the A-bomb or…

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Bryan
September 5, 2013
Moving the goalposts
We’re living longer, but we’re not necessarily better off for it, at least not according to modern medicine. Several months…

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Bryan
July 22, 2013
In our own backyards
Recently, European scientists finally isolated the reason for the sudden, puzzling disappearance of entire colonies of bees. Although parasitic mites,…

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Bryan
June 26, 2013
Beyond the blueprint
The whole of modern medicine rests upon the belief that, to a great extent, your future health is out of…

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Bryan
May 31, 2013
A Long Shot
Last January, after sustaining an injury to one knee during a particularly heated hockey match, our 16-year-old daughter Anya, a…

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Bryan
April 30, 2013
Back to the future
When Lynne’s mother was 24, her dentist unwisely extracted a tooth while she had the flu. Within days her neck…

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Bryan
February 8, 2013
They’re not even wrong
There’s a breathtakingly ignorant comment that has done the rounds of late, and it goes like this: there are only…

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Bryan
January 17, 2013
Miracles of the demi-gods
Medicine seems to divide itself between the miraculous interventions and the mundane. The latter is all the things medicine isn’t…

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Bryan
December 6, 2012
Eat well, stay well
Only around 10 per cent of Britons take their health seriously; the rest rely on medicine. In other words, just…

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Bryan
November 5, 2012
Making it up
Around 90 years ago, the pharmaceutical industry took over medicine. Inspired by the discoveries made by its sister companies in…

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Bryan
October 2, 2012
An amalgam of half-truths
The news that the European Parliament is expected to ban mercury fillings throughout the 27 member states, including the UK,…

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Bryan
September 7, 2012
Old drugs, new diseases
One of the drug industry’s tactics for selling more remedies is to invent a disease. ‘Social phobia’ springs to mind…

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Bryan
July 31, 2012
Because they can
The faint-hearted among us often question the suicidal bravery of mountaineers who risk their lives to climb the world’s highest…

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Bryan
July 9, 2012
Caught in the Act
We recently fell foul of the Cancer Act 1939. It’s the same pernicious act that forced the cancellation of an…

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Bryan
June 6, 2012
The ethical drug company
The recent bank bail-out left a bitter taste. Apparently too big to fail, the banks enjoyed state support to keep…

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