this Inside Health piece – more information via the excellent www.neurosymptoms.org website.

“Channel Four television is looking for a Sex In The City style female GP or other Medical Professional to present a new prime time glossy series on Cosmetic Surgery. The series is currently untitled, but it’s a transformational show that looks at the modern breakthrough’s in beauty and the very latest innovations. Our new medical […]

Free link to BMJ article here

as per their misleading adverts, up held by ASA, here. Not the first time their adverts have been problematic, see these informally resolved cases here.

made with lots of friends. It’s here, called http://privatehealthscreen.org/ and we hope you find it useful. Please pass it on, I hope practice websites might find a place for it, we hope it’s a resource to add to, and we would love to include anyone who shares our concerns – send me photos and words. There was […]

Free link to BMJ review ‘A Show Trial’ , also a smaller piece about overtreatment and overdiagnosis in the UK – yes, we have some of the US’ problem too. http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e6617            

The Patient Paradox is on kindle for 1.99 for the next week. thank you, Pinter and Martin

Gardiasil   http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mhra_reports_for_gardasil?unfold=1#incoming-260466   http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/HPV/Index.html   http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/jama.html http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/9/54 http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a769 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17993361 Sunscreens and cancer http://news.mst.edu/2012/05/sunscreen_ingredient_may_pose.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507131951.htm http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=2126870568&_sort=   Hearing and vitamins http://oto.sagepub.com/content/143/6/826.full.pdf+html http://www.unboundmedicine.com/evidence/ub/citation/8484483/Vitamin_B12_deficiency_in_patients_with_chronic_tinnitus_and_noise_induced_hearing_loss_ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20534742   acne http://www.sgm.ac.uk/news/releases/DUB12_MGE.cfm and the unbelievable press release. here. It’s nonsense. We need good information to make choices, not nonsense statistics and scaremongering. Press Release: For immediate release   The “world’s most […]

Review of Channel 4’s Drugs Live, for the BMJ,  in which I conclude that it didn’t help people understand how to do a clinical trial.

Update BMJ May 2014: a further randomised controlled trial showing baby helmets’ aren’t necessary and make no difference    Inside Health tonight had a piece about about baby helmets for so-called ‘flattened head’ syndrome. I think the evidence of benefit for these helmets – costing 2K upwards – simply isn’t there, and I think parents are […]