Categories for Healthcare and Treatment

What’s Behind the Whooping Cough Outbreak?

What's behind the current whooping cough outbreak? Dr. Maggie Cooper looks at the data and finds a switch in vaccines 20 years ago may be the culprit.

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The WHO Pandemic Treaty is Just Bad Public Health

The WHO Pandemic Treaty isn't just a tool of globalist overreach, says Dr David Bell: with its myopic focus on rare, low-mortality outbreaks, it's also really bad public health.

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Cochrane Founder Peter Gøtzsche: Healthcare is Much More Corrupt Than People Think

"Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers etc.," says Cochrane co-founder Professor Peter Gøtzsche.

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Overdiagnosis of Autism

Up to 2% of the population of England is autistic, according to the Nuffield Trust, while ADHD prescribing is up 50% in five years. What we have here is a serious case of overdiagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.

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Why Cancer Screening Doesn’t Save Lives

A new study followed 400,000 men for 15 years and found no benefit from screening for prostate cancer. The problem is over-medicalisation and over-diagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.

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If You Thought Assisted Suicide Would Guarantee a Quick, Painless Death, Data from Oregon Will Make You Think Again

If you thought assisted suicide would guarantee a quick, painless death, data from Oregon will make you think again, says Nick Rendell. One person took almost six days to die.

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Prostate Cancer Screening Doing “More Harm Than Good”, Study Finds

Prostate cancer screening is likely to do more harm than good, experts have warned, after a 15-year trial showed one in six flagged cases was wrong and the death rate was lower in those who weren't screened.

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We Locked Down to Save the Frail. With Euthanasia We Want to Bump Them Off

We've gone from pulling out all the stops during Covid to try to save the frail to contemplating euthanasia, where we'll bump them off. Shouldn't we at least have a vote on it, asks Nick Rendell.

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The NHS Told Me I Had to Wait Over a Year for My “Urgent” Prostate Operation

The NHS told Steve Wallis that he had to wait over a year for his "urgent" prostate operation, leaving him living with a catheter that severely limited his quality of life.

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Puberty Blockers in Children Were Always an Unregulated Live Experiment Based on No Evidence

Puberty blockers in children were always an unregulated live experiment based on no evidence, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. The NHS is right to ban them.

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