Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Antidepressant Drugs. Record Prescriptions, but only 1 in 6 will have withdrawal symptoms!

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The Lancet Psychiatry journal published a study on 5th June 2024. It found that only one in six people who stop taking antidepressants will...
Monday, 10 June 2024

A new 'double selective' Antibiotic? Is this good news? Or a belated recognition of the patient harm caused by the 'old' antibiotics?

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Most people, if asked to identify a pharmaceutical drug that was "safe and effective", would point to antibiotics. So is this anno...
Wednesday, 5 June 2024

Pembrolizumab (keytruda): another "safe and effective wonder drug"! So what is causing the cancer epidemic?

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I am reporting on news of yet another pharmaceutical "wonder drug" This drug is called Pembrolizumab, it "melts away" tu...
Friday, 31 May 2024

The Contaminated Blood Inquiry. Is the focus of the media response misplaced!

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We do not learn from our mistakes. History should teach us that scandals, disasters and fiascos are never recognised at the time, or even ...
Thursday, 30 May 2024

Elections, Politics and Health Spending?

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Health is good; therefore spending on health must be good; therefore democratic politicians at election time, when they want our votes, prom...
Friday, 17 May 2024

Informed Consent to Pharmaceutical Medical Treatment. What information do patients' require?

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Informed consent is important in medicine. It is especially important in Conventional (Pharmaceutical) medicine which has a long history of ...
Friday, 26 April 2024

Another new 'game-changing' treatment for cancer? A real hope, or another false dawn?

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"‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled" This is a headline in today's Guardian newspaper...