In the faint hope that summer might actually break upon us at some point and that, therefore, the sunscreen question will be upon us again, I checked in to a post on Dr John Briffa's blog last week about sunscreens. He was, in fact, belabouring the Daily Mail (with some reason) …
Conventional Medicine
Omega 3 fatty acid – how much do we need and where will it come from?
Facts: DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), are long chain Omega 3 fatty acids – essential for heart, vascular and other physiological aspects of our health but also absolutely essential to the proper functioning of the brain and our mental …
Ongoing herbal medicine concerns
Most people who use herbal medicine of any kind will be aware that amongst the many other areas of our daily life in which they dabble, the EU regulators have also been interesting themselves in herbal medicines. Depending on which side of the fence you sit, their desire to …
Measles and MMR – again…
Oh dear... Why can governments and government agencies never come clean, be honest and treat us as intelligent people who can, and would like to, think for ourselves... As a result of current measles scare in Wales the health agencies are peddling the same old line – MMR is …
Confessions of a frustrated pharmacist
I regularly get news releases and articles from the Orthomolecular News Service, the news wing of Orthomolecular.org, proponents of 'Therapeutic nutrition based on biochemical individuality'. To quote themselves: Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which is Greek …