Still on the subject of excessive medical intervention, an article in this morning's Natural News by human rights investigator, Monica Young, on the over-medication of boys for behavioural problems make horrifying reading. She suggests that, in the US, what used to be seen as …
Conventional Medicine
The Vaccine Epidemic
The British Society for Ecological Medicine's conference next week on the 'health hazards of prevention – vaccinations and pharmacoprophylaxis', at which Dr Andrew Wakefield will be a guest speaker, tallies well with the recent publication in the USA of The Vaccine Epidemic, a …
25% of US Children on Prescription Drugs
Well, here is a distinctly depressing statistic with which to start the new year... alerted by Natural News, I have just read an article by Anna Wilde Mathews in the Wall Street Journal. One of the most worrying aspects of this mass medication programme is that most of the …
Under-active thyroids and ME/CFS
In our line or work we hear all too many tales of ongoing medical problems for which neither conventional medics nor alternative therapists have been able find a solution, so it is particularly satisfying when a positive story comes our way. Which is partly why I am blogging the …
Ethics in Medicine
Many people may have been shocked by President Obama's recent apology to the Guatemalans for deliberating infecting hundreds of their parents and grandparents' generation in the 1940s with gonorrhea and syphilis so that they could test the efficacy of a new antibiotic, but this …