Reflux, indigestion, heartburn… whatever you want to call it, it’s a huge pain in the gullet. It’s also an incredibly common problem plaguing millions of us. Rather than cut out the coffee, alcohol, rich foods and overeating that contribute to the problem, it’s so much easier to reach for a pill. And that’s exactly what [...]
Living in a house with two teenage daughters means I’m constantly monitoring the excesses of modern “beauty”… it usually goes something like this…. “go and wash your face before you leave the house, there’s no way you’re going out looking like that!”.
Now, courtesy of Allergan, we have a new designer drug that could make mascara [...]
Around this time of year, my clients start asking me what I think of the flu vaccine? The truth is that after mountains of research, the evidence supporting the benefits of annual flu vaccination is weak.
Recently a large review looked at the efficacy of flu vaccine trials from around the world. Called [...]
In the past week the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil has been in the New Zealand news again. I watched the six o’clock news a few nights ago as Dr Karen Poutassi from the Ministry of Health reassured New Zealand women that this vaccine is extremely safe. She smiled and told us that side effects reported [...]
