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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
February 1, 2020
Don’t eat like a monk
If I’d been paid a dollar every time someone has been told “Eat less” as the best way to lose…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 1, 2020
A five-alarm fire
Despite all the protests from campaigners and scientists alike, 5G wireless network technology is arriving. Companies like T-Mobile are busy…

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Bryan
January 1, 2020
Joining the statin love-in?
If you’re over the age of 50, healthy and have no history of heart disease, you probably should be taking…

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Robert Verkerk
January 1, 2020
The twisted nature of Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales’ and Larry Sanger’s idea of an online encyclopedia created by the people, for the people, seemed like a…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 1, 2020
A knife in back surgery
Every year, half a million Americans undergo surgery for low back problems alone, at a cost of more than $11…

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Lynne McTaggart
December 1, 2019
Light in the darkness
For years, we as a society have largely refused to deal with a very basic question:  why is the rate…

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Robert Verkerk
December 1, 2019
A Google detox
Freedom is one of our most treasured rights—one that’s tightly allied to privacy. And while many of us rejoice at…

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Bryan
December 1, 2019
Death by vitamin
The Irish are lucky—and not just in general. They’re especially lucky when it comes to vitamins and supplements. With those…

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Lynne McTaggart
November 1, 2019
For your eyes only
Judy Dench, who played “M,” head of the British Secret Service in seven James Bond movies, broke hearts recently when…

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Robert Verkerk
November 1, 2019
Why you shouldn’t be wary of B12
Vegans who “don’t believe” in supplements may have found themselves celebrating lately. It’s been reported that high levels of vitamin…

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Bryan
November 1, 2019
When medicine lost its soul
Anybody heard of the Flexner Report? Can’t miss it—a big report, published more than a hundred years ago. Anybody? Mrs…

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Lynne McTaggart
October 1, 2019
The thyroid tragedy
Some 20 million Americans—or one in every 16—and one in 20 British people suffer from some form of thyroid disease.…

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Robert Verkerk
October 1, 2019
What happened to ‘Do no harm’?
It’s time to radically rethink how we practice medicine to unlock our full healing potential. It’s confusing for a lot…

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Bryan
October 1, 2019
Big Pharma Google
We can’t see the world as it really is, only as we perceive it to be. Wise words from the…

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Lynne McTaggart
September 1, 2019
All in your head
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME, has such strange physical manifestations—from severe unexplained physical and…

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Robert Verkerk
September 1, 2019
Censored by social media
In my lifetime, that’s pushing six decades now, I’ve never seen the degree of censorship that we now face in…

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Bryan
September 1, 2019
What’s up, doc?
Who wants to be a doctor? Well, quite a few people, apparently, with more and more of our best and…

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Robert Verkerk
August 1, 2019
Don’t give me five
We live in an increasingly ‘connected’ world, with real social connections substituted for virtual ones. Sitting around a campfire has…

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Lynne McTaggart
August 1, 2019
Desperate measures
I have a decidedly love-hate relationship with antibiotics. On the one hand, I have to admit that I owe my…

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Bryan
August 1, 2019
Come off it
Regular readers may have inferred from articles that have appeared in these pages that medicine is in a death-grip embrace…

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Robert Verkerk
July 1, 2019
Killing us softly
You know the old adage that things have to get really bad before they get better? For some time, I’ve…

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Bryan
July 1, 2019
Do not disturb
Anyone for pick-up sticks? It’s that frustrating game for the steady handed where you must remove one stick from a…

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Lynne McTaggart
July 1, 2019
Mother Nature’s medicine
Governments around the world have finally come around to admitting the obvious: air pollution isn’t very good for us. And…

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Lynne McTaggart
June 1, 2019
The big fat lie
Bad theories die hard, and one of those that seems to have the gift of eternal life is the cholesterol…

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