I am feeling a bit depressed. I wrote yesterday about the lack of results from chemotherapy drugs. Last night I buried a bit deeper into the paper that stated that chemotherapy only improved breast cancer survival by 1.4% at the 5 year mark. I went looking for the figures for the cancer that a friend [...]

The words in the title are well known, but I feel a little unfair on statistics. However it is true that most of us don’t know how to interpret statistics and even if someone does know it might take a few minutes to sit down and decode what the figures are actually saying.
A good case [...]

Earlier in this blog (28 June) I wrote about a medical journal article that commented on the latest medical findings that heart disease is due to inflammation and the body’s attempt to cope with it and not to arteries blocked by cholesterol.
Now I have come across an article that indicates that not only is heart [...]

I was doing a little research on something else and fell over an article about the gulf war syndrome - full of nice references, which, of course, as a researcher I really liked. One of them lead me to another article about a nasty called squalene which they put into the vaccines of the soldiers who were sent [...]