18 Jul 2014: Kailash Chand: Nice’s advice is based on drug-company-sponsored trials. People at low risk of heart attacks are better off walking more and eating less processed food
Editorial: Nature and the BMJ, like all serious scientific journals, rely on peer review to establish the authority of the papers they publish, and peer review, it appears, is less reliable than it sounds
17 Jun 2014: Letters: Prevention of avoidable diseases is starting to look like the only way to save the NHS from bankruptcy, but this requires the NHS to become a behavioural-change organisation that promotes certain lifestyles
21 Mar 2014:
Fundamental divide between doctors over ‘medicalising’ people who are not ill by giving them tablets to cut the risk of a heart attack or stroke
19 Mar 2014: Peter Thompson: Statins may not be the miracle cure we keep looking for. But, just as when I was diagnosed, I believe science will be my salvation
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