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Sons of statin: How the new arrivals narrowly missed disaster
Last month two new cholesterol lowering drugs stepped into the limelight at AHA’s (American Heart Association) annual conference. Neither is likely to make it to market until the end of next year but...
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Keep statin supremo away from the missing side-effect data
The statin saga – do they help or harm? – took a fascinating new turn on Sunday when statin supremo Professor Sir Rory Collins confessed to the Express that he hadn’t actually done the analysis needed...
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How senior medics use strong arm tactics to close down the debate on statin...
One of the alarming and intriguing things about the cholesterol lowering drugs statins is the vigour and ferocity with which supporters defend them. It’s alarming because it makes it almost impossible...
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The serious trust deficiency afflicting medical advice and what to do about it
Trust me I’m a doctor has become a knowing, cynical catch-phrase but the underlying truth is that we do need to trust our doctors, not only because trusted doctors exert a beneficial healing effect but...
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Medicine’s democratic deficit. Time for middle-aged, white, privileged males...
It’s hardly news that things have not been going well for various professional elites lately. Economists so busy promoting the neo-liberal agenda they failed to notice the on-coming depression;...
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The great QOF fiasco. The untold story of the biggest public health...
By Jerome Burne The results of […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for the...
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Latest statin scam | Mis-selling them to pensioners
By Jerome Burne The blog has […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for the...
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Statin Deniers and Anti-Vaxxers. How political rhetoric is infecting medicine
By Jerome Burne Last month I […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for the...
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The claim that the cure for the crippling fatigue of ME/CFS was to change...
By Jerome Burne In September 2016 […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for...
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Citizen researchers: fighting for truth about treatments
By Jerome Burne Rufus Greenbaum, a […]Author informationJerome BurneJerome Burne is the editor of HealthInsightUK. He is an award-winning journalist who has been specialising in medicine and health for...
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