- 14 May 2009 SWINE FLU: Storm in the Swill-Trough?
- The original media frenzy about swine flu seems to have died, which is merciful. Two weeks ago you could not turn on TV or radio without wall-to-wall comment.
What seems to have happened is a small and rather savage outbreak in Mexico of a disease normally confined to pigs, which has given rise ...read more
- 30 April 2009 Is Cleansing A Dirty Word?
- Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at Exeter University, this month reported the Duchy of Cornwall to the Advertising Standards Agency, alleging that claims made on behalf of a cleansing tincture marketed by the Duchy are groundless. He went on to question the very concept of cleansi...read more
- 09 April 2009 Special Notice for Vaccinees from GHK
- We are about to cease vaccinating
Please check whether this statement applies to your child
Good HealthKeeping Ltd ceased to exist in August 2008 and its activities were continued by a Partnership of the same name. The Care Quality Commission noticed this on 7th April 2009, cancelled the Co...read more
- 18 December 2008 Compulsory Vaccination?
- Word has reached me of a thought in Whitehall that maybe full child vaccination should be a condition of entry into school and receipt of child benefit. Whether or not this is accurate, therewas recentlya petition on the Number 10 website, which expired on 29th November. I contacted earlier those o...read more
- 05 November 2008 Which Painkiller?
- A mother recently rang me for reassurance, and instead found herself heading for A&E as fast as she could get. Her child had swallowed four adult paracetamol tablets – enough to harm a child weighing 10kg (22lb) or less, or up to age two. I expect when she got there the news was good, but...read more
- 10 October 2008 Intelligent Design: an Intelligent Debate?
- The recent resignation of the Director for Education at the Royal Society provoked considerable bluster last month. The issue was whether Creationism should be addressed in school science lessons, if a pupil raised it. I was at the time engaged in writing a series of articles defining and describin...read more
- 09 September 2008 Mumps Protection: Everything Under Control
- Official policy is to offer two doses of MMR, at 1 and 4 years, and that's that. Apart from leaving some uncertainty whether all three items have been effective, no account is taken of the life of these protections. Measles does not need boosting but rubella does in girls, and mumps does in everyon...read more
- 09 September 2008 Best Advice on Mobiles
- Our thanks to Dr Philip Michael of Irish Doctors Environmental Association for access to an analysis of recent studies on mobile phones. The language of the 20 expert analysts is a bit technical, but hereis the gist oftheir conclusions.
· Electric fields from mobile receivers do penetr...read more
- 10 June 2008 Chapter One
- Prelude
People say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I cannot say, but I know is that a vision is worth millions. Mine occurred in September 1971 and I have been acting it out, writing and talking about it ever since. Yet I have come nowhere near doing it justice.
I am rapidly appro...read more
- 09 June 2008 Chapter Two: What Health Is Not
- I need now to clear away some of the ideas that are wrongly attached to the word “health”. Most educated people probably feel they understand it, but I don’t think they do.
To illustrate why, I remember a remote spot on the edge of the town where I lived until recently. By a si...read more