News Round-Up
14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
When the local medical community started refusing to treat the unvaccinated outside of hospital and only provide a reduced standard of care within it, Dr James Miller knew he had to get out.
Dr. Eashwarran Kohilathas was on the NHS frontline during the pandemic but quit when he saw the harm they were doing and now writes to bring truth and healing instead.
With prescriptions of antibiotics, painkillers, sedatives and opioids rising considerably during the Covid lockdowns, is overuse of medicine making us unwell, asks Dr Mark Shaw.
The evidence stacking up against the 'safe and effective' vaccine narrative makes the effort to shut down debates on pain of excommunication from the medical profession a clear and present danger to public health.
Think about people who've been tellers of truth. Very often, they were retired. They wrote for an independent website or Substack. They don’t have bosses or career paths. It’s only these people who will say what’s true.
Dr William Makis has written to the Canadian Medical Association to alert it to what seems a very high death rate among vaccinated doctors in Canada, 32 of whom died "suddenly and unexpectedly" in the past 16 months.
American medicine has abandoned meritocracy. Black students are seven times more likely to be admitted to medical school than similarly qualified white students, and nine times more likely than Asian students.
A reader says he is currently unable to get hold of urgent medication for his heart condition owing to an NHS computer failure, which is affecting the whole country and has been blamed on a cyberattack. Is it that easy?
The pharmaceutical industry is much too keen on new drugs and prone to conceal risk and exaggerate benefit. But radical proposals to overhaul it will fail. What can practically be done to improve it?
The pharmaceutical industry is not fit for purpose. It commits widespread fraud – many if not most medicines are overpriced junk. It spends more on marketing than research. Is there a better way?
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