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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 2, 2012
The consent that is never sought
Aside from death and taxes, life’s only other certainty is that you have a body, over which you have complete…

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Bryan
April 10, 2012
First, do something
Breast cancer is one of the major ‘ladykillers’ – and so governments want to be seen to do something, not…

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Bryan
March 12, 2012
The science of profit
Imagine you’re a Venusian paying a visit to Earth, and I’m in the welcoming party. Over a bubbling Martian cola…

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Bryan
February 6, 2012
In the pocket
Our main feature this month (http://www.wddty.com/kill-not-cure.html) highlights two disturbing statistics about Big Pharma: in 2011, it was recorded as the…

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Bryan
January 11, 2012
When miracles happen
Praying for another’s wellbeing is problematic, even at this time of year when our thoughts might turn to miracles and…

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Bryan
December 6, 2011
It’s an ill wind
The West is going through financial turmoil. Its governments are bankrupt, and are being forced to cut back on public…

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Bryan
November 4, 2011
The expert-free therapy
We live in an age of complexity. We switch on the lights in our home, but don’t really understand how…

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Bryan
October 4, 2011
Zen and dementia
This is the 22nd year that we’ve been producing a monthly issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, and people…

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Bryan
August 31, 2011
The MMR believers
Pity the poor parents who want to do the right thing when it comes to vaccinating their child. Even suggesting…

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Bryan
July 11, 2011
Fat profits
The cancer at the heart of medicine is its need to serve two masters: the patient and the pharmaceutical company’s…

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Bryan
June 1, 2011
My back phages
Pity the poor general practitioner. He doesn’t have the tools for the heroic gesture, unlike his counterpart in emergency medicine…

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Bryan
May 4, 2011
Because they say so
Before the discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo, the Sun orbited the Earth. It didn’t, of course, but everyone accepted that…

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Bryan
March 28, 2011
The superficial science
Philosophy is the art of asking the difficult question, and it is the engine room of most of the sciences.…

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Lynne McTaggart
March 1, 2011
Fixing the fat police
We are fat and getting fatter by the day.Several years ago, Johns Hopkins University did a study showing that, if…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 1, 2011
Healing thoughts
The biggest headache for any drug-company executive is the placebo, or ‘sugar pill’, used in controlled trials to show that…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 4, 2011
Only connect
Nearly a year ago, Hollywood was shocked when actress Brittany Murphy, just 32, died from pneumonia, which she contracted after…

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Bryan
December 6, 2010
Mass-production medicine
By the early years of the 20th century, mass production processes were being refined. Soon, factories would produce thousands upon…

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Lynne McTaggart
November 30, 2010
Medicine in the raw
Our dog Ollie, as a small, tricolored Cavalier King Charles spaniel, was bred by royal decree and born with a…

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Lynne McTaggart
November 2, 2010
Ghostly medicine
All of us at WDDTY are shaken to the core by the recent disclosures that most studies in the medical…

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Bryan
October 1, 2010
What is natural?
I was recently asked by a health symposium to write something along the theme of ‘What is natural?’ Here is…

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Lynne McTaggart
September 27, 2010
Mind medicine
Dr Bruce Moseley, an orthopaedic specialist at Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX, was convinced of the powerful effect of the…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 31, 2010
The damaged brain
Just occasionally, I come across a doctor willing to break the conspiracy of silence on the damage caused by their…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 2, 2010
Not my problem
In 2002, WDDTY learned of plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting…

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Lynne McTaggart
June 28, 2010
The kindest cut
In these austere times, President Obama’s Congress and the fledgling UK coalition government are casting around furiously for ways to…

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