HRT & blood clots
Introduction Women in the UK woke up to scary headlines on January 10th 2019. The Daily Mail informed us that
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Medications
Antidepressants and weight gain
On 23rd May 2018, an article was published in the BMJ entitled “Antidepressant utilisation and incidence of weight gain during
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Statins: at what age?
1st August 2017 would have been a confusing day for anyone reading all the UK papers. The Telegraph front page
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Evolocumab – NICE guidelines – a reply
On 17th May 2017, I received a reply to the letter set out in this post. “Dear Zoe Thank you
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Evolocumab – NICE guidelines
The Telegraph covered my findings here. This is a copy of an email, which I have just sent to the
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)
While I was in South Africa, at the Professor Tim Noakes hearing, Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) came up both home and
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CEBM – Centre for Evidentially Biased Medicine
A friend pointed this post out to me, which I would not have seen otherwise, as this would not be a
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The Lancet Statin Study
On Friday 9th September 2016, an article was published in The Lancet with a quite extraordinary editorial. The full article
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Mediterranean Diet better than statins?
My August Bank Holiday Monday (29/8/2016) kicked off with an interview on BBC Radio Berkshire to discuss the day’s headline:
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HRT & Breast Cancer
On 22nd August 2016, women woke up to the headline: “British study finds risk of breast cancer nearly tripled by
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