I covered all this a year or so ago, but there has just been a clear update in the Archives of Internal Medicine Vol 170, No12, 2010 coming to the conclusions I came to.
The first paper looked at the JUPITER study and concluded “The results of the trial do not support the use of statin [...]

I wrote this a while back and can’t find it on this blog, but if its already here, sorry for double posting.
There was an interesting article on the BBC website suggesting in its first paragraph that bringing back WWII rationing might reduce the obesity levels and encourage healthier eating. I read this as a slightly [...]

I can appreciate why some people refuse to take reponsibility for their health and say that disease sometimes “just happens” and there is nothing you can do about it. I can accept that sometimes disease appears to sometimes “just happen” but I don’t accept there is nothing we can do about it.
It is my personal [...]

Have you ever noticed how sick so many health professionals are? One of the GPs I consulted last winter proudly said he had been down three times with the flu so far this year and kept on working! And an alternate “healer” was deathly white, had huge problems sleeping and looked as [...]

I have been doing a lot of thinking while my eyes haven’t been good and I haven’t been able to do as much online as I would like. Some understandings came clear when I was discussing internet marketing with Lee Mickle of Body Logic fame. I am going to have to revamp this blog – [...]

A friend lent me an insightful book the other day written by Lee Mickle called Body Logic. It was her story of having a bad case of Meniere’s disease and doctors had told her she should learn to live with her condition as there was nothing they could do for her. It is a particularly [...]

I was reading about Koch’s Postulates for determining whether disease was infectious and caused by germs/microbes/pathogens. Basically, according to what I’ve read on Wikipedia and various uni websites, Koch was a scientist who was exploring the impact of pathogens around the era of Pasteur and others. Bear with me as you go through the explanation [...]

I’ve had some problems with my eyes over the last three weeks, culminating in all day at various hospitals seeing five doctors along the way. The news was promising although not likely to be quick. They are talking of perhaps months or even ongoing treatment over the future.
The issue isn’t my eye per se, but [...]

They say that any publicity is good publicity. I found this was as far as google is concerned. I made the mistake of commenting on a so-called science blog and got a flogging in response. But really, what happened was that I challenged the new religion of Medicine – a capital letter because it is [...]

There is a strong move within the medical communities and government bodies such as the US FDA to make sure that people who are ill are not subject to scam claims about alternative cancer remedies and natural cancer treatments.
This would be fair enough if the medical community was actually offering treatments that worked. Unfortunately some [...]