issue: health
Thursday 28 February 2008
Heart disease: we need medicine
not moralism
Fear of rising heart deaths is unfounded. And if we’re serious about lowering the death rate even further, we need better treatment not lifestyle lectures.
Friday 20 October 2006
'There's no such thing as "stress"'
Angela Patmore has been branded a ‘heartless bitch’ for her attack on the stress management industry. Calm down and get a life, she tells her critics.
Monday 30 January 2006
Chemical stories can make you blind
A new report washes away some of the myths about ‘potentially deadly’ chemicals.
Friday 8 April 2005
All in the hormones?
Vivienne Parry, author of The Truth About Hormones, questions whether chemicals control our destinies.
Friday 30 July 2004
Keep taking the tablets
Forget the scare stories, says Diarmuid Jeffreys, author of a history of aspirin – the little white pill is ‘one of the most amazing creations in medical history’.