My feelings about Brexit are hardly a secret. On this blog, I have often pointed out that it was a disaster; I even reactivated my German citizenship because of it. I was clear to me that such ...

Homeopathy has attracted some of the best jokes in healthcare. Please allow me to show you 20 of my favourites: "Homeopathy: Water with a memory, but no consciousness." — Tim Minchin "Homeopathy is ...

The pervasive use of cell phones has led to a substantial increase in pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in our immediate environment. For pharmaceuticals, close proximity EMF effects are considered ...

France’s Conseil d’État has delivered a significant legal and symbolic defeat to homoeopathy. In decisions published on 2 October, it annulled disciplinary sanctions imposed on three doctors who had ...

When French high school pupils gather in the streets, they are not, as casual bystander might assume, asking for adequately heated classrooms, or fewer students per classroom, or fully staffed schools ...

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” Dolly Parton once observed wittily and self-critically. Her bon mot made me realise that homeopathy offers an equally remarkable, proposition: it costs a ...

A controversial vaccine study was given approval to move forward this week. It central to the vaccine vision for Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

Gut microbiota composition might have a role in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and faecal microbiota transplantation has been proposed as a means of restoring healthy gut ...

I know many people – myself included – whose blood pressure increases when Trump is mentioned. But this post is not about the anger and stress by which the orange felon might jeapardise our health ans ...

Medical practice is often perceived through the lens of patient autonomy and non-judgmental care. In discussions regarding ineffective modalities like homeopathy, physicians are frequently advised to ...