Message For The NHS – It’s Competition Itself Which Raises Productivity
As we all know arguing that there should be competition within the National Health Service causes maiden aunts to drop their pearls. But efficient...
NHS Homeopathy Service Becoming Ever More Effective As Spending Falls
A report that the National Health Service is spending - still - £55,000 a year on homeopathic treatments. You know the nonsense, that repeated...
The Lancet Reports British Diet Pretty Damn Good Actually
As is always the case with these sorts of reports The Lancet's one on diets and death is being treated as an awful, shocking,...
Ghastly American Health Care – Insulin Price Cut To $25 A Month From Cigna/Express...
If you'd like to see what a complete, total and utter mess American health care is consider this concerning new price cuts on insulin...
As We’ve Been Saying, We Should Subsidise Vaping
The big question about vaping from a public health perspective is whether it reduces health problems or increases them? The more basic civil liberty...
Of Course Asbestos Still Kills After 20 Years – It Takes 40 Years To...
We have an interesting entry into the Idiot Complaint of the Day Race. That asbestos is dangerous is entirely true, that mesothelioma is a...
Vaping’s A Good Thing, Perhaps We Should Subsidise it?
There's a basic problem we've got with this idea that we can rule the world, force it into our desired shape. Which is that...
A Call To Action – We Can Tell The Prodnoses To Bugger Off
We have that glorious opportunity to tell the killjoys, prodnoses and assorted idiots what we really think of them. For there's a government consultation...
Life Expectancy Hasn’t Fallen Even If The Effect Is Worse On The Poor
ONS tells us that life expectancy has fallen, is falling, this not necessarily being something that's entirely true. There being good reason to believe...
Booze As Bad As Tabs For Causing Cancer – Not, Actually, What We Want...
The latest piece of scaremongering here about the risks of booze to our health. A bottle of wine a week, for women, raises the...