Cognitive Bias
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The role of the #nutritional #therapist is to alleviate and prevent illness and disease in individuals through lifestyle and nutrition related changes. We do…
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Incidence of Bias in Major Medical Journal Adverts
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The use of Randomised Clinical Trials are generally heralded by medics as being the gold standard for clinical assessment of validity of use for…
Food Choice Affects Lab Outcomes
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Most basic research relies on the use of mice as the sacrificial animal. Many of these mouse are carefully engineered to have special gene…
H1N1 – Questions About Profit Incentive
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Swine flu has killed 12 799 people worldwide since it first emerged in Mexico in March 2009, the World Health Organisation said on the…
Accuracy of Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures Reported by Physicians
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The question of independence of decision making from financial benefits in medicine and other areas of healthcare remains an ongoing problem. It exists, it…
Are Published Trials The Full Picture?
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In the Journal Of The American Medical Association (JAMA) last month (sept9th 2009) a rather dull article was published that continues to raise significant…
Iodine Deficiency Or Excess What Is The State Of Understanding?
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Dr Miller an American Surgeon reviews the current state of iodine related health problems from a predominately American perspective. He does summarises in his…
Food Choice Has Greater Impact on Obesity Than Genes!
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We are not slaves to our genes. Even if we are born with an inherited predisposition to obesity, life style is important and will…
Enzyme Therapy & Cancer – Recent Paper Questioned!
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Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzyme Therapy Compared With Gemcitabine-Based Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer. Dr Gonzalez, a recent expert speaker at one of the…
Ghostwriting Is Called Rife in Medical Journals – Still!
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Six of the top medical journals published a significant number of articles in 2008 that were written by ghostwriters, according to a study out…