Years ago, when I had a TV show called Where There’s Life, we decided to do a programme on QUALYs, a new measurement that was decisive in apportioning money for treatments between equally deserving patients in order to share out … Read More
Pregnant mums using cannabis cause disturbing behaviour in children
We know smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol in pregnancy harms the unborn baby. It can cause low weight, a failure to thrive and a vulnerability to chest infections and hospital admissions in infancy. I remember the moment I read the … Read More
We’re sprinting ahead with game-changing Covid tests
The Government has declared its goal of getting up to 10 million Covid swab tests a day. But which tests and how? Our testing system is still less than perfect with tests going astray, results arriving too late for any … Read More
Vaccine Taskforce leads the quest for Covid cure
There’s something wonderful going on here in the UK of which we can all be very proud. It’s called the Vaccine Taskforce (VT) and its aim is to ensure that we have access to a vaccine as soon as possible … Read More
Flawed Boris Johnson Moonshot will never achieve lift-off
Scientists are worried about Boris Johnson’s “Moonshot” not just because it’s pie in the sky and over-promising the nation, but that it’s scientifically unsound. The problem is that Boris, and presumably Matt Hancock, want to do mass screening with the swab test … Read More
Killing off Covid-19 looks like pie in the sky, so we must learn to live with it
Does the Government have a clear long-term goal on tackling coronavirus? I’m not sure. Oh, yes, they want fewer infections, fewer admissions to hospital, fewer patients in intensive care and fewer deaths. We all do. But do they aim to eliminate … Read More
Trump’s vaccine haul could cause coronavirus deaths to soar
President Donald Trump defiles everything he touches. At the end of June he announced that the US government had bought up all the coronavirus vaccines that would be produced in America. No one else could get a look in. His presumptive … Read More
The facts don’t lie about black newborn babies – and they horrify me
Recently I read a medical report that horrified me. It showed that black newborn babies are less likely to die when black doctors take care of them rather than white doctors. I simply can’t compute this info, can’t countenance that … Read More
Why it’s getting harder to tell the two types of diabetes apart
As a rule of thumb, type 1 diabetes is defined as needing insulin and first appears in childhood or teen age. Type 2, on the other hand, tends to appear in later life, usually middle age, mostly doesn’t require insulin … Read More
Antivaxxers are as dangerous as coronavirus as we crave jab
One of the ways we keep our spirits up during this Covid pandemic is by pinning our hopes on a vaccine. At least most of us do. But there’s a group of people who couldn’t care less, the antivaxxers – … Read More