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	Tuesday 23 May 2006, London
	Save the planet, don't see the world?
	Tourism versus the environment

Article

9 May 2006

MMR is safe - so why are many still scared of it?
The good news: a study found no persistent trace of measles in autistic children after MMR. The bad news: it may not be enough to allay public fears.

Article

27 April 2006

Fattened statistics
What�s behind the shock-horror headlines about child obesity doubling in a decade?

by Peter Marsh

	2 March 2006 Child obesity Should we worry if our children are overweight?

Other articles

Article

13 April 2006

Avian flu: this is not 1918
The discovery of a dead infected swan in Fife has led to warnings of another 1918-style flu epidemic. Let�s have some historical and scientific perspective.

by Stuart Derbyshire

Article

6 April 2006

Are packed lunches the 'biggest evil'?
After school dinners, Jamie Oliver is turning his attention to 'shit' packed lunches. The message seems clear: parents can�t be trusted to feed their kids properly.

by Rob Lyons

Article

6 April 2006

Food labelling wars
Labelling was once a dull technical matter. How did it get so controversial?

by Chris Pile

Article

28 March 2006

Mental Health Bill: a U-turn for the worse
There is little to celebrate in New Labour's change of mind.

by Ken McLaughlin


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Article

21 March 2006

After Northwick Park: we need more research, not less
Are some drugs companies devoting too much energy to marketing old drugs and not enough to developing new ones?

Article

21 February 2006

The stigma of smoking
As the smoker has become a pariah, sufferers from lung cancer have become the lepers of the twenty-first century.

Column

Jennie Bristow

7 February 2006

Herceptin: The politics of 'Her Too'
The ongoing controversy over the breast cancer 'wonder drug' has become divisive and dangerous.

Columns

Article

6 February 2006

A sickening White Paper
The government's proposed 'health MOTs' will merely encourage more and more people to see themselves as ill.

Article

27 January 2006

The dangers of the crusade against cancer
Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres may have been set up with the best of intentions, but they give sanction to the backward notion that cancer is the wages of sin.

Article

16 January 2006

Why do we carry on screening?
Yet another study has confirmed the uselessness of the test for prostate cancer, but that won't stop men trooping into my surgery asking for it.

Article

13 January 2006

The dangers of prostate testing
A new study suggests that examining men for prostate cancer can do more harm than good.

by Liz Frayn

Article

9 January 2006

Why the great and the good are 'going organic'
Unearthing the origins of the Soil Association's meteoric rise.

by Josie Appleton

Article

6 January 2006

Choice on the sickbed
New Labour's new Patient Choice initiative suggests it doesn�t know the meaning of the c-word.

by Brendan O'Neill

Article

30 November 2005

'One-in-10 kids are mentally ill'? That's madness
Can you spot the three with disorders in your kid's nursery?

by Ken McLaughlin

Article

25 November 2005

Pandemic flu: turning a drama into a crisis
UK health secretary Patricia Hewitt blames the �worried well� for creating a shortage of flu vaccines. But who made the well worried?

Article

21 November 2005

The absurdity of a 'patient-led' NHS
What next: a lunatic-led asylum?

Column

Jennie Bristow

17 November 2005

Don't give food alerts the green light
In seeking to label food as 'good' or 'bad', the UK authorities risk treating pizza like poison, and consumers like children.

Columns

Article

11 November 2005

The death agony of the anti-MMR campaign
Even after a Cochrane review found 'no credible evidence' of a link between MMR and autism, sections of the British media just won't let it lie.

Article

4 November 2005

When quackery kills
The tragic death of a five-year-old autistic boy in the USA following treatment with mercury chelation reveals the dangers of alternative therapies.

Article

7 October 2005

Patient power can harm your health
A breast cancer patient has won the right to be prescribed an unlicensed drug. This doctor isn't cheering.

Column

Jennie Bristow

5 October 2005

School meals - get real
The real scandal is the government�s unwholesome attitude to parents.

Columns

Article

3 October 2005

Killing trust between doctors and patients
The Assisted Dying Bill would make a peaceful, dignified death less likely, not more.

by Kevin Yuill

Article

22 July 2005

Is bottle-feeding a mark of bad motherhood?
A new study investigates how women who use formula milk in the early months engage with the cultural expectation to breastfeed.

by Ellie Lee

Article

27 June 2005

Expert witnesses, suspect science and dead babies
Why have women been wrongly convicted of killing their children? Dr James Le Fanu points the finger at medical experts. Below, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick responds.

by Dr James Le Fanu

Article

27 June 2005

Society's unhealthy obsession with abuse
Sir Roy Meadow is not single-handedly responsible for a culture that sees child abuse everywhere.

Article

10 June 2005

Fat and fiction
Michael Gard, author of The Obesity Epidemic, challenges the idea that we are greedier and more slothful than ever.

by Rob Lyons

Article

23 March 2005

Our unhealthy obsession with sickness
Why is being ill now embraced as a positive part of the human experience?

by Frank Furedi

Column

Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

15 November 2004

We have ways of making you stop smoking
The parallels - and differences - between Nazi Germany's 'war on cancer' and New Labour's crusade against the evil weed.

Columns

Article

13 July 2004

The lock-up diet
As the authorities in Derbyshire, England, threaten to remove an obese nine-year-old from her parents, Paul Campos tells the chilling tale of how an overweight toddler was taken from her family in the USA.

by Paul Campos

Article

23 June 2004

MMR, autism and politics
The MMR issue has split families and friends as they were once divided 'over Thatcher and the miners'. Dr Michael Fitzpatrick talks about his new book.

by Helene Guldberg

Article

7 June 2004

Choking on the facts
The death of an obese toddler in a London hospital has been discussed as an open-and-shut case of death by gluttony. It was nothing of the sort, say experts.

by Brendan O'Neill