Someone’s clearly forget to tell the Guardian’s northern editor, Martin Wainwright, that the war’s over…
The medical properties of carrots – including the boost they provide to night vision, which led to them being fed to RAF pilots during the second world war – can be enhanced by the way in which they are cooked, researchers [...]

First things, first, apologies for the lack of posting of late, which is due to a number of ongoing real life issues that I can’t discuss for the time being, but which I may be able to clear up in due course.
Now, having got that out of the way, let’s get down to business… and [...]

I’ve ripped on the generally poor quality of health and science journalism in the Indy on several previous occasions, and today’s Indy provides ample reason to have another go at them:
My girls won’t have the cancer jab
The new cervical cancer vaccine offers few benefits, says Jerome Burne, father of two daughters. Which makes the risks [...]

It’s seems to be the lot of bloggers, in today’s world of 24 hour churnalism, to do the job that investigative journalists used to do and, so it seems, nowhere more so than when it comes the reporting of health ‘issues’, especially those in which public policy plays both a significant part and finds its [...]

Sarah-Kate Templeton, late of the Sunday Herald and current the Health Editor at the Times is, so I understand, an award-winning health journalist…
…not that that seems to mean very much on the evidence of her coverage of the revised guidance issued by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in regards to abortion and mental health:
Women [...]