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Those who cling to the belief that medicine is more a science than a commercial enterprise might consider the story of a group of drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) and their approval process. ESAs are routinely given to cancer patients...
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Somebody dies suddenly from a heart attack. “Ah, well,” says a close friend, “I’m not surprised, really. He was always stressed.” Stress, it seems, is the great killer of our times, and medical researchers are confirming...
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My father was fond of the expression 'A fate worse than death'. I think it was something to do with the way we Brits would have been treated had the Nazi hordes invaded in the Second World War. I was wondering if similar thoughts have been going...
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You can prove the darnedest things with science. You can demonstrate that dangerous drugs are safe; you can even establish that vitamins and nutritional supplements can shorten your life, a sleight of hand that was performed this week. And the great thing...
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Is anybody noticing a pattern here? In 1977, children started receiving a one-dose mumps vaccine. Initially, rates of mumps fell dramatically, and health officials were congratulating themselves that they were on the road to eradicating another disease....
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It’s spring. This is traditionally a time for cleaning out the stagnation from the winter – cleaning the closets, shaking out the bedding, sweeping out the corners, discarding old junk. The same can be done with our bodies. Traditionally in...
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Do you think that the science that determines the safety of the drugs we take is the same as the science that determines the safety of aircraft technology? It's a question that lies at the heart of a fascinating paper from Herman Jeggels, a medically-qualified...
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It’s all unravelling badly for our health guardians who have been trying their upmost to convince us that the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine is perfectly safe. In the past few weeks we’ve heard from the US that a court has awarded substantial...
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The latest views about children with autism is that it is a multifactorial problem, due to a combination of vaccination, heavy-metal exposure and even to microwaves, as generated by mobile phones. Typically, a child exhibits gut conditions, problems with...
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All of us rest easy in our beds at night in the belief that someone, somewhere, has our best interests at heart. That sense, that there are scientists sitting in lofty institutions who make decisions, however ultimately flawed, from a sense of right so...
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Are we poisoning our children to the extent that they can't function in the classroom? A new study into the abilities of children in the UK who are failing basic exams known as SATS has discovered that 55 per cent have an undetected learning problem...
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Around 25 per cent of all prescription drugs are given to patients 'off label' or for unlicensed use (see BMJ, 1998; 316: 343-5). This means that, despite the expensive safety trials that all drugs have to go through, one in four is given either...
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There is something about spring that gets us bright eyed, bushy tailed, and ready to shake things up. I don’t know how many of us still shake the bedding and leave it out in the sun in the garden, but cleaning out the house and wiping out the dank...
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The news this week that antidepressant drugs are no better than placebo underlines just how drug-dependent conventional medicine has become. Even though researchers had to use the powers of America's freedom of information legislation in order to...
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Who do our health guardians and regulators care about most? Is it us - as it should be - or is it the drug companies, who invariably sponsor them, or could it be their immediate bosses, the government? America's health guardian, the US Centers for...
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Recently, homeopathic hospitals across Britain have had their funding withdrawn because of the claim that homeopathy lacks the proof of modern ‘evidence-based medicine’. I’ve turned my usual column over to master homeopath and naturopath...
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The MMR-autism debate just isn't letting up, especially in the States where a TV drama has this week jettisoned it back onto the front pages. The programme, Eli Stone, features a lawyer who wins a $1 million lawsuit for a mother whose child became...
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Forgive the metaphysical tone, but what is Man? It is one of the most fundamental of questions, and its answer would determine many things, not least of which the way we treat disease. In the West, medicine is based on the standard bio-chemical model,...
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So many people are worried about their weight! It’s either the look, or the health, or the concern about what other people may say about them, or the bullies in school – all the messages from society are that being chubby, overweight, zaftig,...
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The WDDTY archives are full of evidence suggesting that we should be avoiding conventional cough remedies. Here are five stories providing reasons why you should be seeking out the alternatives. Cough Remedies: Don’t give them to the under-2s Cough...
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Most diseases have something to do with lifestyle and the environment, but the experts in our community, the doctors, know very little about such things. As they only get about one hour's teaching on nutrition in their five years of medical training,...
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In the 1970s, computed axial tomography (CAT), or CT, scans revolutionized diagnosis, offering pictures ith up to 20 times the detail of ordinary x-rays, particularly of bones, blood vessels and soft tissues of the body. It has made it possible to scan...
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What shall we do with the drug companies? The year is only a few weeks old but already they've been caught out on two occasions suppressing vital data that revealed their drugs weren't working anywhere near as well as they have claimed. In the...
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There are several things you can do to ease the pain of bunions, before you consider more drastic measures such as surgery. These five suggestions are taken from the February 2008 issue of What Doctors Don't Tell You . Cushion the bunion and wear...
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Running is undoubtedly hard on your lower limbs. A year-long Australian study found that distance-running injuries were the second most common sports injury seen at a sports clinic. (Clin J Sport Med, 1997; 7: 8–31). Runners commonly suffer from...
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