Alzheimer’s: another reason to be sceptical about statins

The front page of the Daily Express on Friday led with a new warning about statins – combining them with certain blood pressure pills could raise your risk of muscle pains, lung disorders and kidney damage. Hmm yes well.  Even as a cholesterol/statin sceptic I thought that was remarkably over-hyped – statin side effects are massively […]

Article: Mamograms do more harm than good

This articles was published in the Daily Mail 26 March 2012 | [External Link/Permalink] This was based around a remarkable book by a Norwegian researcher and bio-statistician who had been looking at the data for the benefits of mammograms for over a decade. He’d found that their  benefits had been massively overplayed and the very real risks of […]