Cancer treatments giving false hope
‘A significant number of cancer treatments may have no benefit over existing treatments or a placebo,’ remarked a senior cancer…
Jerome Burne
Jerome Burne has been a health journalist and campaigner for twenty years and written for most of the national newspapers and a variety of magazines. In 2012, he won the award in the category Medical Science Explained from the Medical Journalist’s Association.
Vaccine safety – don’t shut down the debate
I am not an apologist for Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who proposed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism…
New view of cancer
A diagnosis of cancer is really scary. It can seem as if there are only two options, neither very appealing.…
Treating serious vitamin B12 deficiency
Have you heard about the NHS trust that recently introduced an incredibly brutal, and possibly illegal, form of drug rationing…
ME: The truth about exercise and CBT
Would any doctor continue to prescribe a drug which they had been told would benefit 20 per cent of patients…
Dark arts pushing heart drugs
Evidence-based medicine and ‘value for money’ are two of medicine’s Mum and apple pie principles. But like other principles they…