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• Drugs in the air

  Last week I was in Chicago, where I’d started at university, and what impressed me most about the place was not the sheer size of Lake Michigan, the flatness of the Great Plains or even the deep-dish pizza. What most hit me in the face was drugs. Read More... Posted 27 May 2008 11:10 by Lynne McTaggart | 2 Comments

• MMR and mercury detox: how to protect your child

  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 Read More... Posted 25 March 2008 11:46 by Lynne McTaggart | 27 Comments Filed under: MMR, autism, mercury

• Scoundrel time

  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 Read More... Posted 18 March 2008 13:59 by Lynne McTaggart | 13 Comments

• Where's the beef?

  Recently, homeopathic hospitals across Britain have had their funding withdrawn because of the claim that homeopathy lacks the proof of modern ‘evidence-based medicine’.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 Read More... Posted 19 February 2008 12:10 by Lynne McTaggart | 72 Comments Filed under: homeopathy

• 'Super-x-ray' excess

  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 Read More... Posted 28 January 2008 14:15 by Lynne McTaggart | 7 Comments Filed under: x-ray, cancer, CT scans

• Walking is better than running

  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 Read More... Posted 21 January 2008 16:55 by Lynne McTaggart | 9 Comments Filed under: exercise, running, walking

• Preemptive strikes

  Nothing makes my blood run cold so much as hearing about a new variety of ‘preventive’ medicine. This alarming notion aims to stop disease in its tracks by treating the patient with a just-in-case remedy while he is still healthy. Yet, medical Read More... Posted 04 January 2008 16:54 by Lynne McTaggart | 4 Comments Filed under: aspirin, doctors

• Not quite human

  Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took the unprecedented step of requesting that pharmaceutical companies take a list of cold remedies for children off the market. Rarely has such a sweeping and categorical ban ever occurred, but the Read More... Posted 08 November 2007 16:50 by Lynne McTaggart | 5 Comments Filed under: children, FDA, child health

• A systems approach to breathing problems

  Doctors fail to conquer disease, in the main, because they are not taught to think globally. They usually consider each system in isolation. A heart attack is due to clogged pipes feeding the central engine. A pain in the arm must originate in the arm. Read More... Posted 24 October 2007 14:35 by Lynne McTaggart | 4 Comments Filed under: breathing problems, ADHD, memory, modern medicine

• The problem with asthma treatments

  The gold-standard treatment for asthma rests on the assumption that asthma is an inflammation. Consequently, doctors usually treat it with steroids, the main drug for inflammation. Indeed, by the mid-1990s, steroid use for asthma had more than tripled Read More... Posted 09 October 2007 15:06 by Lynne McTaggart | 17 Comments Filed under: asthma treatment, John Mansfield, steroids, lynne mctaggart, asthma