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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

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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Bryan
September 26, 2018
Researchers admit they were wrong about full-fat dietary advice
Hello World, Research HQ here. Hope you’re well! (And if you’re not, we’ll dig and dig and dig until we…

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Robert Verkerk
September 4, 2018
Bridging the nutritional divide
Imagine you’re an insurance company. You’re worried about covering the costs of people who get sick relatively young, then die…

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Bryan
September 4, 2018
The powerful healing properties of baking soda
Innovations are often described as being the best thing since sliced bread – but what was the best thing before…

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Lynne McTaggart
September 4, 2018
Hearing loss and the benefits of acupuncture
Once you’ve got it, you’ve got to learn to live with it – and strap on a device to help…

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Lynne McTaggart
July 31, 2018
Mitochondria: small but mighty
Everybody’s talking about them as the new hope for overcoming every condition from chronic fatigue to Alzheimer’s disease. ‘They’ are…

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Robert Verkerk
July 31, 2018
Bugs, baby wipes and leukemia
Being exposed to bugs early in life could help prevent cancer, says Rob Verkerk I can’t imagine much more shocking…

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Bryan
July 31, 2018
Do fewer patients die when the surgeon is away or on strike?
I can imagine that the typical surgeon, when he was a young boy (or girl, of course), was the sort…

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Bryan
July 17, 2018
What big picture?
If you’re a doctor – or, better yet, a researcher at a pharmaceutical company – you think you’ve got human…

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Lynne McTaggart
July 17, 2018
The secret life of pain
We all know what causes physical pain, don’t we? A part of your body gets crunched, cracked, stabbed, cut or…

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Robert Verkerk
July 10, 2018
There’s something fishy going on
When a paper in a major mainstream journal comes out against omega-3 fish oils, my eyebrows rise. Especially when the…

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Lynne McTaggart
April 23, 2018
The unfair pill
We’re living in unfair times – some of the most unfair in recent history. And now WDDTY may have come…

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Robert Verkerk
April 23, 2018
Oiling the wheels of natural healthcare
When it comes to sustainable healthcare, the West could learn from the East I was honored to deliver the keynote…

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Bryan
April 23, 2018
A maverick’s passing
We need our nay-sayers if medicine is ever to improve The death of a maverick is always worth a moment’s…

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Lynne McTaggart
March 27, 2018
Brains on fire
Much of modern psychiatry rests on the assumption that mental illness is a biological or genetic disease. Nowhere is this…

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Bryan
March 27, 2018
Calories aren’t all created equal
You wouldn’t ask your doctor about nutrition any more than you’d interrogate a nomadic tribesman of the Sahara about the…

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Robert Verkerk
March 27, 2018
The myth of the ‘faulty’ gene
Mutated genes don’t automatically lead to cancer, says Rob Verkerk Angelina Jolie is the pin-up woman for an entire new…

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Bryan
February 28, 2018
Getting the vax facts wrong
The media is pulled by the forces of simplification and sensationalism, says American sociologist Robert McChesney. I’d add a third…

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Robert Verkerk
February 28, 2018
When poachers turn gamekeepers
Big Food corporations are increasingly buying out the top natural-food players Only around 10 companies control the vast majority of…

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Lynne McTaggart
February 28, 2018
Germ warfare
Blaming health conditions on bugs like bacteria or viruses has fallen out of fashion. We look for lifestyle causes of…

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Lynne McTaggart
January 25, 2018
High drug pressure
If you are one of the millions of people taking powerful drugs to treat high and ‘abnormal’ blood pressure and…

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Bryan
January 25, 2018
Blame the Russians
The vaccine debate has taken a sinister turn. Any bad news you read about the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) and flu vaccines…

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Robert Verkerk
January 25, 2018
When technology takes over
Technology has drastically altered the lives of most humans on the planet. Infant mortality has plummeted, with most babies in…

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Bryan
December 21, 2017
It’s all a Wonderland
Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice might have said if she’d seen some of the research papers that have been passing…

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