Never let it be said that my approach to this blog is not eclectic.... Because of John Scott and his close relationship with parasitic worms, my eye is always attracted to anything with 'intestinal parasite' in the title, so, of course, I had to read 'Intestinal parasite …
Conventional Medicine
Auto-Brewery – or getting drunk without alcohol!
YESSSSS!! But actually, maybe not..... Fine when you fancy being drunk, but not at all fine when you don't. Or as the authors of this case study in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine point out: This is a rare syndrome but should be recognized because of the social …
WDDTY and The Times
Those of you who read either What Doctors Don't Tell You or The Times will be aware of the campaign being waged by the latter, led by Sense About Science's Simon Singh, to discredit the former as being a 'danger to the public'. (The outburst has been sparked by the fact that …
Worms for sepsis and diabetes?
As I am sure many of you know, John Scott is the best possible advertisement for the helminthic therapy about which he is so passionate. (This is the cover that Chris White designed for the magazine in which we ran one of the first of John's articles....) When we first met …
Excting allergy research projects
On Wednesday I went, for the first time, to the Food Standards Agency's annual presentation, this year focused on their work in the field of food allergy, and on the departure of the splendid Dr Andrew Wadge who has headed up the scientific arm of the FSA since 2000. (He pointed …