Categories for Healthcare and Treatment
One in Eight UK Children Reported as Disabled by Parents. It’s a National Calamity
One in eight UK children are disabled, according to their parents. With so many too mentally and physically feeble for work or military service, where is the urgent response to this national calamity, asks Mary Gilleece.
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Crunch Time for the WHO: Put the Right to Health Sovereignty Back at the Centre or Be Abolished Entirely
It's crunch time for the World Health Organisation, say Dr David Bell and Prof Ramesh Thakur. It must put the right to health sovereignty back at the centre of all it does or face being abolished entirely.
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The NHS Would be Wrong to Stop Discouraging Cousin Marriage
The NHS has been told to "stop discouraging cousin marriage" as genetic disorders are only "slightly increased". In fact, the risk is well over double, says Guy de la Bédoyère, and worsens in successive generations.
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The Wi-Fi and Mobile Phone Cancer Debate Heats Up
Do mobile phones and Wi-Fi cause cancer and other harms? The World Health Organisation will soon pronounce on this question, and the scientific debate is heating up, says Gillian Jamieson.
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Nipah Virus Triggers Another Bout of Hysteria in the Media
A large outbreak of hysteria occurred in the media over the past week regarding a small Nipah virus outbreak in eastern India. Dr David Bell is suspicious about who gains financially from this frequent fearmongering.
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General Medical Council vs Dr Sarah Myhill: Dr Myhill Wins Again
In these dull, dank days of January, Dr Rachel Nicoll is pleased to bring the good news that Dr Sarah Myhill, long-persecuted proponent of repurposed treatments during Covid, has again defeated the GMC in a court action.
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RFK Turns the American Food Pyramid Upside Down
What South Park predicted, RFK Jr has now done: he's turned the American food pyramid upside down, prioritising fats and real food over carbs. It's a revolution, says Dr Zoë Harcombe. But there is one wrinkle.
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An A&E Nightmare That Exposes the NHS as Anything But the ‘Envy of the World’
The NHS is often said by politicians to be the 'envy of the world'. But after a 48-hour odyssey through A&E to get an urgent scan for suspected appendicitis, Shane McEvoy is convinced nobody anywhere is envying us.
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Super Flu? More Like Super Hype
Present case numbers for the ‘K’ variant Super-Flu don't justify the hype, says Dr David Livermore. Perhaps it's the media lust for fear porn, or perhaps the Government's fear of the strike, but it's not a Super-crisis.
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The Screaming ‘Super Flu’ Headlines vs The Data
Addressing the lurid claims of a 'super flu' season, Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson find themselves having serious problems reconciling the screaming headlines with the actual Government data.
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