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More paracetamol for number 10. :) New Wales coalmine may soon be approved despite Cop26 pledges Conditional licence granted in 2016 at Aberpergym has led to row between Whitehall and devolved administration...

Glad I saw that while I was in the bathroom with the WC close by.

Agreed. The big problem in the parts I inhabit is when you see a doctor who then fails to help. You cannot simply go back again and again - whether to the same or other doctors. (Many do question their own sanity and doing so would appear to confirm mental issues to the doctors as well.) I...

I am a regular reporter of errors. I found a seriously wrong statement in a major document used in the UK to justify thyroid treatment for many years. It was published in 2006 - and is still being listed as a current document...

High dose vitamin C is also suspected of increasing the likelihood of those who are prone to the issue to suffer from kidney stones.

I certainly do not agree with it. In some areas, doctors are pretty good. In others, they can be dreadful.

Because it causes other gut problems - if everything is rushing by at high speed, it doesn't have the chance to be digested properly and then for absorption to happen properly. Some substances might still be absorbed as well as ever, but others won't. Can also affect the microbiome.

I think you have wait a bit longer than that - five and a bit months to go - then may the fourth be with you.

What a pathetic level of governing - can't make decisions, so hold cod competitions. If a place has a decent case, let them make it and judgement made. If they haven't, let them shut up and stop squawking. City status: The 39 towns competing for an upgrade revealed

The various rumours (I'll not put it stronger than that) which one day proclaim one vaccine as the answer, the next dismiss it as almost worthless, really do not help. I do not like the idea of three identical injections. If a variant can get past that particular product, then it can probably...

I usually get one thyroid test a year. That might have Full Blood Count, liver function and a few others added on. Trouble is, they usually only measure one factor - Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH). The typical reference interval is something like 0.4 to 4.0 and any value within that tends to...

St Stress is a known and major factor in developing (some) thyroid disorders. There is increasing evidence that things like high stress in childhood can ripple through and, eventually, result in (maybe, just one possibility) autoimmune thyroid disease. Even when there might have been many...

Two people, seemingly very similar, both eating the same diet which has been formally assessed as balanced, has lots of fresh foods, etc. One might be very well, the other very ill. We are all different and have different needs. (And that is without going into the allergens issues. Let's...

I so wish I agreed. People should never have to self medicate. And where is the border between self-medication and non-self-medication? The medical establishment in the UK, insofar they think about the issue, frequently advise we all take vitamin D. They refuse tests on the grounds we are all...

The suggestion by some is that we should take it "to bowel tolerance" - as much as we can ingest without actually ending up unable to move from the WC. Then drop very slightly. I think that is crazy. And vitamin C is not the only antioxidant.

There will be very mixed feelings about this. For many years, medicine (in general) has been pushing things like Graded Exercise Therapy (GET), anti-depressants and psychological for Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) - and Fibromyalgia (FM). Patients have been...

I spend an inordinate amount of time reading and see vast quantities of research that was incompetently designed, badly analysed, with logical mistakes, etc. But mostly there is no reason to suspect manipulation. More often unwillingness to admit previous mistakes, to look stupid, or to put the...

If the people conducting the trials were causing toxicity by choice of dose, it could mean there is insufficient experimental evidence. Independence? I don't think it matters what I think - you need to be convinced for yourself.

They are often held up as one of the foremost groups that collect papers and produce reviews. Sometimes widely accepted; sometimes not.

Alan Bennett dedicates Kipling poem A Dead Statesman to Boris Johnson The playwright’s annual diary excerpt criticises the prime minister and Donald Trump and recalls an encounter with Philip Roth I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved...