When I heard this week's news that GlaxoSmithKline were offering a diarrhoea vaccination to third world countries at cost, I immediately wondered where lay the catch – just before wondering why you would vaccinate a child to prevent diarrhoea when all that is needed to eliminate …
Food/Health Policy
Things are Looking up in Europe
The long saga of the banning of many traditional herbs by Brussels (see this post, and this post and acres of material on line) has always smelt bad. The pharmaceutical industry have had it all so much their own way that there just had to have been some sort of collusion. Well, …
Has the State Overstepped – Again?
'Our primary responsibility or mission in child protection is to identify children and families who are in need of services that will assist families with ensuring the care and well-being of their children.' So said Michael Patterson, district manager with the Department of Human …
Proposed EU Herbal Regulation Built on a Fallacy
A lengthy article on the Alliance for Natural Health site urging us all to keep up the good fight against the risible (if they were not also so threatening) proposed EU restrictions on the sale of herbal medicines, includes an astonishing piece by Chris Dhaenens of the European …
The Pitfalls of ‘Advising’
It is really not easy being a government health agency. Whatever you say, you will be wrong in someone's eyes (sometimes wrong in almost everybody's eyes) but the purpose of your existence is to advise, so advise you must, even when there really is no advice to give. (The …