Ethics: online course for doctors to ‘first do no harm’
By Marika Sboros “First do no harm” is the golden rule of the Hippocratic oath. Medical doctors around the world have to swear it before [more]
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Dietitians: health hazards or mainstream healers in 2020?
Will dietitians be the movers and shakers who make LCHF go medical mainstream in 2020? A new LCHF online training course aims to equip dietitians to be healers rather than public-health hazards.
Heikkilä: Is he Finland’s Noakes or Fettke?
By Marika Sboros Is it most correct to call Dr Antti Heikkilä Finland’s Tim Noakes, Gary Fettke? What about Shawn Baker, Annika Dahlqvist or Èvelyne [more]
Wits ethics chief loses moral compass trying to silence a scientist?
By Marika Sboros Here’s an intriguing ethical and moral dilemma in the latest issue of the SAMJ (South African Medical Journal). It’s in an article [more]
Noakes free at last, HPCSA licks its legal wounds
By Marika Sboros South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes is a free man. Noakes has won his final battle with the Health Professions Council of [more]
LCHF slips into medical mainstream at PHC event! PART 1
By Marika Sboros If you harbour any doubt that low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) diets are becoming medical mainstream, the recent Public Health Collaboration (PHC) annual conference [more]
Sugar tax – usual suspects say, ‘It wasn’t us!’
A sugar tax is a good thing, right? It’s a significant step to resolve obesity and type 2 diabetes pandemics? Public-health experts want you to [more]
Noakes: Will academic mobsters silence him?
By Marika Sboros Will academic “mobsters” win their battle to muzzle Cape Town scientist Prof Tim Noakes? And how did the dietitian with a business [more]
Noakes: medical, scientific worlds watch as HPCSA decides his fate
By Marika Sboros South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes could know by the end of March if his regulatory body will fail in its last-ditch [more]
Noakes: globally, doctors call on HPCSA to stop prosecuting him
By Marika Sboros Leading doctors and scientists in the US, Canada and Australia have signed an open letter to the Health Professions Council of South [more]
Noakes: HPCSA back on warpath, blocks evidence of a set-up
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is back on the warpath against Prof Tim Noakes. It has announced an appeal [more]
Dr Evelyne Bourdua-Roy: Canada’s Tim Noakes?
By Marika Sboros Quebec family physician Dr Èvelyne Bourdua-Roy could become “Canada’s Tim Noakes”. Bourdua-Roy’s regulatory body, the Quebec College of Physicians, is investigating her [more]
Noakes: ‘HPCSA will lose new war against me’
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is back on the warpath against Prof Tim Noakes. It has also thrown down [more]
Low-Carb Companion: a new best friend for life
By Marika Sboros Low-carb books are not yet a dime a dozen but they are weighing down shelves in bookstores and in cyberspace. The Low-Carb Companion should fly [more]
Lifestyle medicine: Big Religion’s new front in old war on red meat?
By Marika Sboros Lifestyle medicine sounds benign enough. By design or default, it may also be a cover for Big Religion’s new front in its [more]
Medical evangelism: helping hand for unscientific diet advice?
By Marika Sboros If nutrition science proves anything these days, it’s that Karl Marx was right. Religion really is the “opium of the masses”. It’s [more]
Did SA, UK scientists do something dodgy to silence a colleague?
By Marika Sboros Did South African scientists really do something scientifically dodgy to silence their colleague, Prof Tim Noakes? Did they draw a UK scientist [more]
Obesity? Forget the fats, it’s the carbs, stupid, says cardiologist
What does obesity have to do with hearts? Lots. Icelandic cardiologist Dr Axel Sigurdsson spoke recently at a meeting mostly of cardiologists and endocrinologists. He [more]
Groundhog Day as the HPCSA goes after Noakes again
By Marika Sboros Groundhog Day or deja vue? Take your pick. The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has announced an appeal against its own [more]
ADSA – dealing with defeat in ‘Nutrition Trial of the 21st Century
By Marika Sboros If defeat is best seen through the lens of a life lesson, the leaders of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa [more]