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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
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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Bryan
June 1, 2019
Taking the credit
What has medicine ever done for us? Well, there’s antibiotics. And chemotherapy. And vaccinations. OK, apart from antibiotics, chemotherapy and…

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Lynne McTaggart
May 3, 2019
Muscling in on hip pain
Dr Mitchell Yass is a man on a mission–to do nothing less than revolutionize orthopedic treatment, particularly when it comes…

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Bryan
May 3, 2019
Medicine’s blasphemers
Medicine isn’t a science, although it likes to dress itself up in those fineries. It isn’t an art, although a…

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Robert Verkerk
May 3, 2019
Beyond biochemistry
Back in 1977, the eminent American psychiatrist Dr George Engel published a paper asserting that the prevailing biomedical model –…

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Bryan
April 1, 2019
Follow the money, continued
The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus knew a thing or two; one thing he said was that “in war, truth is…

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Robert Verkerk
April 1, 2019
Big Tech: the newest ‘Big’ on the block
The health geeks among us will be very familiar with the terms Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Ag. For…

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Lynne McTaggart
April 1, 2019
It’s just mental
The whole of modern psychiatry rests on the platform that mental illness is, in fact, mental – a sickness that…

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Robert Verkerk
March 1, 2019
The future of healthcare
What if most of the effort expended in healthcare was actually spent on keeping people healthy rather than managing the…

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Lynne McTaggart
March 1, 2019
Talking the walk
All across the world, people are lining up to do the Walk the Walk Moonwalk – in May in the…

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Bryan
March 1, 2019
Goodbye Dr Google
What do you do when you first get diagnosed with an illness? Or perhaps when you’re put on a new…

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Bryan
February 4, 2019
The trouble with treating symptoms and not the cause
Doctors are supposed to inspire confidence. After all, you want someone on the other side of the table who is…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 4, 2019
Alzheimer’s: a possible cure
While medicine wrings its hands over the explosion in cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and the inability of…

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Robert Verkerk
February 4, 2019
Prevention is the future
What’s happened to healthcare over the last half century or so? Those of us who’re a little older might remember…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 1, 2019
Let less food be your medicine
When it comes to diet, it’s now clear that one size doesn’t fit all. Different people have different metabolic types,…

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Robert Verkerk
January 1, 2019
Cutting common allergens from our diets could have beneficial effects on health
Government authorities responsible for food safety – whether it’s the Food and Drug Administration in the US, the Food Standards…

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Bryan
January 1, 2019
Collateral medicine
Collateral damage is one of those weasely words of our times that masks human tragedy and loss in war zones.…

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Robert Verkerk
December 5, 2018
Down to a science
It’s hopefully not a case of wishful thinking that another big fat nail has been driven into the coffin of…

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Lynne McTaggart
December 5, 2018
Lighting the way
In 1970, the late German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp had been playing around with ultraviolet light, in an attempt to find…

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Bryan
December 5, 2018
It’s true (no, it’s not)
This is an urgent appeal on behalf of headline-readers. This troubled group are perpetually confused and bewildered, and some have…

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Lynne McTaggart
November 1, 2018
The dental revolution
A subterranean revolution is taking place in dental medicine. To date, standard dentistry has operated as though teeth are inert…

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Robert Verkerk
November 1, 2018
Don’t keep the faith
It’s clear in most walks of life that science is the new religion. This doesn’t mean people have stopped believing…

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Bryan
November 1, 2018
You could make it up
Repeat a lie long enough and people start believing it, as Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propagandist-in-chief, once said. Medicine is full…

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Robert Verkerk
September 26, 2018
Cutting-edge water science sheds new light on homeopathy
It was with great interest that I accepted an invitation to speak at a conference at the Royal Society of…

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