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Coffee and cancer: what Starbucks might have argued

Why Doctors Are Bad At Stats — And How That Could Affect Your Health

On a recent visit to a hospital…

How do people in the UK feel about easing the lockdown? Not ready yet?

Should we be so worried about dementia?

Studies in the UK have shown that dementia is now our biggest health fear, ranking even…

COVID and ‘excess deaths’ in the week ending April 10th

Can ‘nine lifestyle changes’ change dementia risk?

Today’s headlines across the media were resounding upbeat, following publication of an article in the Lancet.

The BBC led with:

Here we go again

News reports of risk fail on the fundamentals. But it’s not just the reports.

I’m a journalist. I have the power to make people feel more afraid, or more reassured.

I don’t need physical threats, just data — the same data, which I can present or…