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The latest depressing news on antidepressant drugs

The evidence against antidepressant drugs just keeps piling up.

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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.

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The great molnupiravir swindle

Australia’s drug regulator approved Merck’s antiviral drug on the basis of some very shaky studies.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Novavax – hope or hype?

My subscribers have been clamouring for a post on Novavax, so here it is at last.

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The curious case of fat activism and COVID

Why can’t we talk about the major controllable risk factor for COVID?

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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.

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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.

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