What Doctors Don't Tell YouNearly one in four doctors in the UK is mentally ill.
Heart problems still constitute a major health concern in the West - and almost as worrying are the heart drugs employed for lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol. But even major at-risk groups can avoid drugs, while still reducing their...
The cholesterol myth is difficult to bury (WDDTY, vol 3, No. 1) despite increasing evidence that high cholesterol per se is meaningless as a marker for heart disease risk. A study carried out in ...
I have just read your article on pneumonia (WDDTY vol 15 no 11), in which I was quite interested, as my mother is very subject to pneumonia. We have also just managed to get her off about seven prescription drugs. Is it possible that drugs...
HEART RISKS: Is another urban myth toppled?
TRANS FATTY ACIDS: The hidden killers in our food
The new evidence debunking cholesterol lowering isn't license to tuck into bacon and chips every day. As a number of writers demonstrate, the problem is that medicine has probably fingered the wr ...
HOMOCYSTEINE: The saga of a medical breakthrough
Although small studies have been suggesting it for some time, the Grand Old Man of heart research has finally come out and said it, too: cholesterol cannot be looked on as the only cause of corona ...
What is a 'normal' blood test, asked a reader last week. Several readers point out that there are so many different types of test, and the laboratory will look only for those specific markers or components in the blood that the doctor has requested...
