Current Posts – 13 September 2016

A band of radical clinicians are questioning whether randomised controlled trials are right way to discover how life-style changes can best beat the obesity epidemic. RCTs are scientific medicine’s gold standard but the radicals say they are too cumbersome, slow and unreliable. A fast grassroots research project gathering real life data to update guidelines on the fly is underway. Their first report has just been published.

If you are diagnosed with cancer, one of the first things you are likely to do is to search the internet for non-standard therapies that seem effective and safe. But it can be a time-consuming and depressing process. What you want is a wise guide who will provide you with unbiased expert information. That guide has now appeared in the form of a book called ‘The Cancer Revolution’. If you are starting out it really is all you need.