The latest depressing news on antidepressant drugs
The evidence against antidepressant drugs just keeps piling up.
Beating measles with toilets – the Swachh Bharat Mission
A campaign to build toilets is associated with reduced rates of measles in young Indian children, succeeding where mass vaccination has failed.
The great molnupiravir swindle
Australia’s drug regulator approved Merck’s antiviral drug on the basis of some very shaky studies.
Are doctors the new antivaxxers?
A new study finds that roughly one tenth of US primary care positions don’t think vaccines are safe, effective or necessary. Say what?
Why you need to stop saying “I’m not an antivaxxer, but…”
The word “antivaxxer” is a thought-stopper used only by the brain-dead, to shut down debate. Stop playing their game.
The strange tale of hydroxychloroquine
Queensland’s Chief Health Office has quietly revoked the previous CHO’s threat to jail doctors who prescribe hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. And the official explanation doesn’t make any sense.
Novavax – hope or hype?
My subscribers have been clamouring for a post on Novavax, so here it is at last.
The curious case of fat activism and COVID
Why can’t we talk about the major controllable risk factor for COVID?
Your doctor is not your doctor
COVID-19 has erased the demarcation line between public health and the practise of medicine. And patients are the biggest losers.
Treating COVID injection injuries
If you’ve suffered health damage from COVID-19 injections, you’re unlikely to get much help from your doctor… but don’t despair, as research is uncovering more and more options that might assist you.