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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
February 25, 2025
Turning back the clock naturally
It’s difficult to age naturally these days, particularly if you’re female. At last count according to several surveys, more than…

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Bryan
February 20, 2025
The guy who came in from the cold
Cold-water therapy may not be so good for us after all, says Bryan Hubbard Yes, reader, I’m a moral coward.…

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Bryan
December 20, 2024
The silver bullet
What’s not to like about a silver bullet? After the excesses of Christmas—and, for some, of a lifetime—who wouldn’t want…

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Bryan
December 20, 2024
Of black holes and cancer
No light escapes from the collapsed Big Cancer star As all you astrophysicists know, a black hole is a collapsed…

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Bryan
December 2, 2024
Bright, shiny objects
Medicine has ignored the vital role that glucagon plays in diabetes Are you ready to play What Am I? According…

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Lynne McTaggart
November 25, 2024
Heading off course
Holding steadfast to a particular course is generally seen as a good thing. It shows consistency, stability, continuity, perpetuity and…

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Lynne McTaggart
November 4, 2024
Sweet treatments
Around 2,600 BCE, honey was listed in an ancient Egyptian trauma manual, much treasured for its ability to speed wound…

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Bryan
November 4, 2024
People, do nothing
“Let the drug do the work” is the first principle of conventional medicine Now to the quick-fire round: What makes…

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Lynne McTaggart
September 20, 2024
A feast for the brain
The other day we were having lunch with the amazing Gina Lazenby, bestselling author, speaker and mentor for women leaders…

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Bryan
September 20, 2024
Spot the error The “safe” wonder drug for Alzheimer’s is neither
I used to get a weekly email letter from a marketing copywriter who would deliberately put a grammar or spelling…

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Bryan
August 15, 2024
The airplane that couldn’t fly
Medicine doesn’t cure—and that’s a big problem In an alternate universe, the science of aeronautics was lauded. It was praised,…

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Bryan
June 24, 2024
How to rule the world
Novo Nordisk is the world’s fastest-growing pharmaceutical company—with one drug Dear avaricious, egotistical, money-mad humans (yup, that pretty much covers…

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Bryan
May 29, 2024
What’s up, doc? Robots are beating medics in making a correct diagnosis
You laypeople need to understand that a correct diagnosis isn’t all that important to the modern doctor. A wrong diagnosis…

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Lynne McTaggart
May 20, 2024
The end of Frankenbelly
Dr William Davis, a cardiologist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had an aha moment after discovering how modern wheat was grown.…

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Lynne McTaggart
April 24, 2024
The all-purpose elixir  
We’ve all been raised on the idea of the inevitability of progress in every area of human endeavor. Thanks to our natural ingenuity, things, we…

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Bryan
April 15, 2024
Science for sale
Academics are paying to have their studies published   Robust is an adjective that was once reserved for stout hiking…

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Bryan
March 21, 2024
I don’t remember it well
The WHO is planning to shape the global response to the next pandemic There’s a saying that if you remember…

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Lynne McTaggart
March 21, 2024
Clearing the air
We do it every day without thinking—in, out, on average 7.5 million times a year. And we think that if we just get…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 26, 2024
Don’t shoot the messenger
The problem with being early messengers of information is that nobody believes them until it’s too late. And these days, they’re not just ignored…

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Bryan
February 21, 2024
Why measles is back
Anti-vaxxers shouldn’t be blamed for the latest epidemic Infectious diseases are like economic cycles. They ebb and flow over time,…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 22, 2024
Chewing the fat—and more 
We are a civilization of terrible teeth. I say this with some personal knowledge, because with the exception of the four front teeth on the…

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Bryan
January 17, 2024
I’m sorry, I’ll read that again
The good news about the HPV vaccine was actually bad news What’s not to like about the HPV vaccine? Not…

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Lynne McTaggart
December 5, 2023
Shredding wheat
In my mid-30s, I got ill with a range of multiplying symptoms: a bad gut, hormones causing havoc, eczema and…

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Bryan
November 28, 2023
Not so random
New research into the Spanish flu outbreak puts a medical myth to bed Who gets ill? Anyone, says the doctor,…

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