The sad and shocking truth about chemotherapy
Someone who has been a part of my life for the last 15 years died today, at the age of just 66. Not…
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My review of Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
“I’m going to tell you how medicine works, in one paragraph that will seem so ludicrously appalling that when you read it you’ll…
New book lifts the lid on Big Pharma
Below is an extract from the introduction to Ben Goldacre’s new book Bad Pharma. But first, just in case you weren’t aware, Goldacre…
Scientists lobby UK government over drug dangers
Here’s the remarkable, hidden truth about pharmaceutical drugs. Adverse reactions to them taken as prescribed are responsible for over a million hospital admissions a year in…
Avoiding those “dangerous” herbal medicines…
In a serious blow to health freedom, Europe-wide legislation banning thousands of herbal products came into force yesterday. For an in-depth discussion of…