On the same day, the Daily Mail headline was “Vegan diets raise bowel cancer risk, alarming new study finds... but chances of ...

We have a real treat today – an hour with a friend of ours who just happens to be the smartest biochemist we know. Dr Isabella Cooper got into this whole field when she was first pregnant, as she ...

* This week's note is about fibre. A recently published paper assumed that there is an optimal fibre intake (25-30g daily) and it investigated how people can be encouraged to consume this. * The ...

Executive summary * The official positions from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC), the US Surgeon General and the UK Deputy Chief Medical officer are ...

(Jump to the Executive Summary at the end if you don’t want the full monty). This is a review of a book written by James & Hannah Yoseph entitled How statin drugs really lower cholesterol: and kill ...

Many thanks to Mike for suggesting this note. Mike wanted to understand more about the types of studies that are used in the Monday notes. He specifically mentioned ...

We’re on the second of a four part note documenting “How to read a paper.” Last week we looked at the levels of evidence. That’s the starting point to understand what we are reading and how robust it ...

* A study was published in JAMA Open Network, which generated the headline ‘stopping statins linked to death and cardiovascular events in the elderly.’ * The study reviewed data from residents in ...

* This week’s study made media headlines worldwide and generated much interest on Twitter. * It claimed that having examined data from 216,695 people, red meat intake (total, processed and unprocessed ...

Executive summary * This week's note is about Dr Malcolm Kendrick's new book called The Clot Thickens. * Malcolm has been trying for 30 years to understand and explain what really causes heart disease ...