National cholesterol month
I was at a dinner party recently when the subject of cholesterol came up. Every (lay) person around the table
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Heart UK
An underhand stunt revealed a pharma funded web
The ink has barely dried on the Iona Heath independent panel report into the demands from Rory Collins that two
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Doctors tell NICE you’re not independent & you’re not evidence based
Last week something quite extraordinary happened in the UK medical world. The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
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The contempt that NICE has for conflicts of interest
This week’s note contains three letters. The first was sent to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health on 17th
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NICE issues new guidelines on statins (OR Statins in the drinking water?!)
Let’s start with a hypothetical conversation… Government: “We know that people with higher incomes are more at risk of being
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Long Live Britain
A programme was due to be aired on 22nd July 2013 and then a royal baby was born so scheduled
Read moreThe British Heart Foundation & Flora pro.activ – an unhealthy relationship
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) describes itself as “a charity that aims to prevent people dying from heart diseases”. Until
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