Nutritional psychiatry

Patient or self-indulgent consumer?

COVID-19 research and non-vaccine treatment

Reversible diabetes

Balance in management of type 2 diabetes

Insulin resistance increases greatly in obese patients and those who have large amounts of fat around the waist. Locally, nationally and internationally a low carbohydrate diet has demonstrated...

The ethics of COVID-19 vaccine trials

Keeping infant vaccination ‘on the agenda’ as we enter a busy winter period

This winter is likely to be a particularly challenging one for the NHS. As the wider healthcare community continues to pull together to fight COVID-19 and minimise the impact of a range of infectious...

Language and meaning

‘It is clear that without a questioning attitude to the meaning of apparently self-evident words and phrases in the scientific lexicon, confusion could arise’

Preparing to Prescribe: an online implementation tool kit for non-medical prescribers

Handwriting and medication errors

‘Avoidable drug errors may contribute to around 22 300 deaths per year’ .

Antibiotic resistance

‘Objective evidence-based medical science cannot be wholly separated from the more subjective demands of morality and ethics’ .

Vaccines and anti-vaccination

‘Vaccination is not above serious debate, and it is sceptics – as distinct from anti-vaxxers – who drive medical progress’ .