Health and medical care
Regular checkups do not improve health or reduce mortality. Why do so many people still have them?
Drug companies produce questionnaires that prompt doctors to diagnose conditions for which their drugs are prescribed. What…
A new paper provides strong evidence that children whose mothers used paracetamol during pregnancy have higher rates…
It's not just antibiotics that mess up the microbiome - nearly one quarter of all prescription drugs…
30 June 2025 Do you ever get the feeling that you're living in Groundhog Day? I sure…
Are CGMs an essential key to metabolic health and personalised nutrition, or a big fat waste of…
Part 2 of The Menopause Files 28 April 2025 In the previous post, I briefly surveyed the…
24 March 2025 A couple of weeks ago, I published a post on how the brain remembers…
3 March 2025 If you've been reading my work for a while, you'll know that I'm not…
Breast cancer screening doesn't save lives, doesn't 'catch cancer early', and doesn't protect women from aggressive treatment.…
A fascinating interview with orthopaedic surgeon Dr Nick Birch on what's wrong with the current medical approach…
2 December 2024 I've been doing a bit of debunking lately, haven't I? From deconstructing the everyone-should-be-taking-vitamin-D…
