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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humour is said to be the best therapy. It certainly can act as a psychological release valve that defuses anxiety, exposes absurdity, and keeps us grounded. But its cathartic power comes with a catch: ...

A Critical Review of Applications, Evidence, Safety and Patient-Centred Care" caught my eye is not surprising. The paper itself, however, offers plenty of surprises. Here is its abstract: Population ...

When discussing so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), logical fallacies are seldom far away. Recognising how they are used might sharpen our own reasoning and help us exposing misleading claims. Here ...

An anaesthetist from Veldhoven, Jens Fischer de Brabander, has been fined by the Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ) for administering umbilical-cord blood without the required licence. The ...

Faith can allegedly move mountains - but it evidently does not prevent the deaths of children in the US state of Idaho. ProPublica reported how 4 (!) children in one Idaho family died from treatable ...