Paracelsus' poison
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As we prepare for the 2014 influenza season, vaccines are in the news again. Also in the news is the latest chapter in a drawn out drama of vaccine misinformation. In case you may have missed this, after…
I’ve just spent over two days doing radio and TV interviews about a paper from my colleagues and I on labelling of herbal medicines. It’s not actually physically printed yet but you can get an electronic…
I was recently interviewed by the ABC for a story on the safety of caffeine strips*. The story was aired today (for the video and transcript see here), with my section coming at the end. In a short TV…
Southern Australia is currently suffering under a heat wave; by all indications today Adelaide will enjoy a record breaking 46 degrees C. With the extreme heat it is vital that everyone take appropriate…
In case you haven’t noticed, this is antibiotic awareness week. Antibiotics have changed our lives more profoundly than almost any other medical intervention outside of vaccination. If you want a glimpse…
In the wake of the ABC statin story there have been a lot of comments on the Conversation about the evils of Big Pharma. Less attention has been given to Big Supplement, the multimillion dollar herbal…
Last week saw CleanUp 2013, a worthy conference on environmental remediation hosted by the CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment. However, in amongst the media releases on…
It hasn’t been a very inspiring election from the point of view of research. Research hasn’t really featured at all. That slightly changed today with a front page article in the Advertiser (also in The…
Dioxin. That word conjures up images of Seveso, Yusho and Agent Orange. Catastrophic exposure to dioxin has resulted in a range of long term health issues and death from cancer. Dioxin is not a desired…
On Saturday July 20, at 7:27 am AEST, 6:57 am ACST and 5:27 an AWST, (that’s July 19, 21:27 UT), the space probe Cassini will look back to Earth and take a picture of our planet. It will be a pale dot…