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Doctors and Scientists in Glass Houses by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine It seems that my last post has made things just a little less than comfortable for stone throwers living in glass houses. (aka as critics of homeopathy who assume that most of conventional medicine is clearly ‘evidence-based’.) Some are even desperately appealing to colleagues for reinforcement. Unfortunately for them it’s not... Read on »

Let critics of homeopathy eat humble pie by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine I promised to use a pie to put everything into perspective and here it is - a pie baked by the highly reputable British Medical Journal’s Handbook of Clinical Evidence. The Background: Prof. Edzard Ernst and others have repeatedly attacked homeopathy on the basis that there is no evidence to suggest that it works. Ernst even went as far as to ... Read on »

# 76: Punch your way to happiness • Packaged Foods: The Bad and the Ugly • Homeopathic ... by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Punch your way to happiness: This week I turned to London's only evening newspaper, the Evening Standard for inspiration and health news. The Standard is no heavyweight newspaper, but when I got to the Health & Fitness section I found myself reading and readingŠ The leading article in the section was by the novelist, Santa Montifiore. H... Read on »

# 74: MMR back in the News • More fishy news • Dairy dreams • Homeopathy & Vaccina... by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine MMR back in the News: That most famous of triple vaccines was back in the news this week. MMR is a combined vaccine against the childhood illnesses of Measles, Mumps and Rubella. It has been alleged to have been associated with both autism and Crohn's disease but neither of these allegations, based on actual medical research, has stood up to... Read on »

# 82: Caesarian Sections: A Kinder Cut or a Waste of Money? • Homeopathic Tip: Childbirth by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Caesarian Sections: A Kinder Cut or a Waste of Money? The issue of elective Caesarian section was all over the media this week. Among a lot of absolute rubbish written about this important issue were a few interesting points. First let us be clear what an 'elective' Caesarian section actually is. If a pregnant woman goes into labour and at so... Read on »

# 80: Sleeping well? • Homeopathic Tip of the Week: Insomnia by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Sleeping well? We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Shakespeare: The Tempest) Thus spake the bard in his last play. Prospero was probably the wisest and most evolved of all Shakespeare's characters. A scholar, magician and healer, he saw the foolishness of the human race and dreaded ret... Read on »

# 79: Male Baldness: German men are 'wiser' than us; or are they? • Homeopathic Tip: Prostat... by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine MALE BALDNESS: German men are 'wiser' than us; or are they? The Times chose to give their medical correspondent, Dr Thomas Stuttaford a whole page to write an article which he called 'The Bald Truth about Hair Loss'. As I 'suffer' from a receding hairline myself, I started to read it with interest but soon my interest turned to boredom an... Read on »

# 78: The Zero-Effort Way to lose weight • Homeopathic Tip of the Week: Water by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Zero-Effort Way to lose weight The issue of obesity will not go away. It's there in every branch of the media: newspapers, magazines (for men and women), radio and of course, television. Switching on the television in the morning is a risk business these days. It's good news if there is an absence of an atrocity somewhere in the w... Read on »

# 85: Diet? Exercise? Viva la creme! • More benefits of exercise • Homeopathic Tip: Ner... by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Diet? Exercise? Viva la creme Well this is the slimming tip that takes the cake - or should I say the cream? Yes ladies and gentleman, 'they' are saying that you can use a cream on your skin to lose weight now. I'd thought I'd heard it all but the French magazine, 60 Million de Consommateurs (quoted by The Week ) has seemingly endorsed t... Read on »

# 84: How to grow new teeth • Vitamins may be bad for your heart • Homeopathic Tip: Dental by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine How to grow new teeth I had heard of tooth implants but never of actually growing new teeth. Not until I read the Sunday Times that is! Their science correspondent, Mark Henderson, reports that dentures could become a thing of the past and a process of regenerating teeth (= growing new teeth) could become a standard process in only five years.... Read on »

# 83: Hay fever Season * Homeopathic Tip: Hayfever by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Hay fever Season: The Evening Standard's Health&Fitness section led with a full page article entitled 'At last, I don't cry when the sun comes out' which was all about the trials, tribulations and treatment of hay fever sufferer, James Delingpole. James had suffered for many years from very severe hay fever symptoms which lasted from May to Se... Read on »

# 92: Healthy Snacking • Fruit • Tip of the Week: Digestion by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Healthy Snacking - Around the world The BBC has a plethora of information on health issues on the health area of its website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/health) which is well worth a look at. There is a useful article on how to snack without putting on weight. The piece makes the point that snacking is not necessarily unhealthy. It all depends on ho... Read on »

# 91: Fertility and the Atkins Diet • Dr Kaplan’s Rules of Rational Eating • Hay fever ... by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Fertility and the Atkins Diet So many people are on the Atkins diet that Britain's butchers are on a high. But how healthy is this popular diet that calls carbohydrates 'the enemy'. Various studies have allegedly linked it to sugar diabetes, depression, osteoporosis and breast cancer, but none of these links has been substantially proved. Now ... Read on »

# 90: The Nation's Health • Safe Sex: Prostitution: To legalise or not to • Homeopathic... by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Nation's Health As I write this newsletter I'm looking at an A3 poster sent to me by a company called NatCen (The National Centre for Social Research). Apparently they work 'on behalf' of the Department of Health. NatCen have done a big health survey of England. The study used a sample of 20 000 adults and children and this is a stat... Read on »

# 94: The Atkins Diet: Part II • Tip of the Week: Toxic or overeaten? by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Atkins Diet: Part II In my last column I reviewed the Horizon programme on the Atkins Diet. Although the programme clearly showed that people on the diet do indeed lose weight, (by simply consuming less calories) it was not able to give answers to some important questions: Is the diet good for you? What are the health effects in the long ... Read on »

# 93: The Atkins Diet: Part I • That Horizon Programme • Tip of the Week: Mosquito bites by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Atkins Diet: Part I That Horizon Programme Well the health news item of the week just has to be BBC2's Horizon programme on Thursday night. It was all about that most fashionable of diets, The Atkins Diet. It was one of the most interesting and well-made television programmes on a health issue that I've ever seen. That it was all about o... Read on »

# 97: To be a REAL MAN, don't smoke and drink by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine For once the Atkins diet was not in the news this week. Small wonder considering the devastating blow it received from Denmark. (See Newsletter no 96 for the Danish study showing that Atkins dieters do lose more weight than other dieters - but only for the first 6 months. To be a REAL MAN, don't smoke and drink Unhealthy semen was in the me... Read on »

# 96: Adkins: Does it work in the long term? • Tip of the Week: Bad Breath by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine THE ATKINS DIET: Does it work in the LONG TERM? The book called itself 'revolutionary'. It sold more than 45 million copies making it one of the biggest selling books in history. Its message was simple: Carbohydrates are the enemy and must largely be avoided. Protein and fat are fine and you can more or less eat as much of them as you like. ... Read on »

# 99: Medicine, Philosophy and the NHS • by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine Medicine, Philosophy and the NHS A book by a doctor and philosopher has caught my attention. It's called Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents by Raymond Tallis The Times printed several large extracts from the book. In the first extract, provocatively entitled 'How Patient Power Could Kill The NHS' the 'eminent consultant and noted ... Read on »

# 98: Homeopathy Special by Dr. Brian K., MD Forum: Blog Posts in General Medicine HOMEOPATHY SPECIAL The Times devoted a whole page to homeopathy in France. For many years France has afforded homeopathy great respect. Visitors to Paris will not have failed to notice that every pharmacy advertises that it carries homeopathic remedies on the front window, something unheard of on these shores. Now homeopathy is being threate... Read on »

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