The full story of Jim and Donna Navarro's unsuccessful struggle to get their four-year-old son, Thomas' cancer treated by anything other than chemotherapy is now quite well known in the US and is told in a lengthy interview and on a documentary film, both available from the Dr …
Conventional medicine
ASA Appears to be Targeting Complementary Therapists
Complementary therapists get,understandably, exercised when those who know and understand little, if anything, about what they do attack them as being 'unscientific quacks'. However, most are fairly used to this form of abuse and take in in their stride. However, one group …
Ethics in vaccination – and child protection
A child is severely injured in a car accident and only a blood transfusion will save its life. But its parents are Jehovah's witnesses and passionately oppose blood transfusions. What is the doctor to do? This old dilemma has surfaced again but this time in the much disputed area …
Lower the Age of Smear Tests to Save Lives
A recent post on the Dr Chris Confidential newsletter suggests that while smear tests are an excellent way of diagnosing cervical cancer early enough to treat it successfully, because an assumption is made is that taking smears from very young women causes more harm than good, …
Djokovic and his gluten-free diet
A great deal of hot air has already been generated by the seeming match-winning fall out from Novak Djokovic's gluten-free diet so I only propose to add a very small extra puff. The coeliac community and coeliac awareness has benefitted greatly from the coverage although there …