New Guidance: Don’t take daily Aspirin

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A prevailing and rather popular practise has been the consumption of a daily low dose of Aspirin to help prevent cardiovascular disease. Literally millions of people are currently doing this. The current medical consensus is that this does more harm than good. There is a new report via a team of Harvard researchers that conforms … Read more

Quackery Alert: WHO ICD-11 Endorses TCM

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Welcome to my acronym soup quackery alert. OK, let’s start with a few definitions so that all is clear. WHO – The World Health Organization ICD-11 – The International Classification of Diseases version 11 TCM – Traditional Chinese Medicine Soooo … to explain my cryptic title, the latest version of the official WHO International Classification of … Read more

What do the The Latest Cancer Statistics tell us?

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The quick summary is that this is a good news story, the number of people dying of cancer each and every year is declining. We know this because each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cases and deaths that will occur in the United States and compiles the most recent data … Read more