News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
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22 October 2024
by Will Jones
The fount of green propaganda continues to flow, with two new reports from the Green Alliance purporting to link health problems and climate change. Ben Pile reads them so you don't have to and highlights the worst bits.
Lord Darzi's 'independent' report skates over the NHS's systemic flaws and pushes for a digital band-aid that's likely to be a tasty prize for Big Tech, says the Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor.
Team GB golfer Charley Hull has said the Olympic ban on smoking may harm her chances of a gold medal as cigarettes help her relax after an ADHD diagnosis last year.
The neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked suffered an outbreak of bacteria lethal to babies in 2015-16, a leaked risk report shows.
Real 'pandemic preparedness' doesn't mean obsessive surveillance before locking down and rolling out a vaccine. It means helping people build healthy and resilient immune systems in their daily lives, says Dr David Bell.
"Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers etc.," says Cochrane co-founder Professor Peter Gøtzsche.
A new study followed 400,000 men for 15 years and found no benefit from screening for prostate cancer. The problem is over-medicalisation and over-diagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Prostate cancer screening is likely to do more harm than good, experts have warned, after a 15-year trial showed one in six flagged cases was wrong and the death rate was lower in those who weren't screened.
A dramatic rise in abdominal cancers among younger people, even those under 45, is sparking alarm among medical experts.
Doctors across the world are sounding the alarm over a surging epidemic of young people being diagnosed with cancers since the pandemic, with no obvious explanation for what lies behind it.
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