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]
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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-fat good for you? Experts keep zombie myth alive
The low-fat diet for heart disease and other serious chronic diseases is a zombie myth, say some doctors and nutrition experts. Those who keep it [more]
‘PURE’ proof that fats don’t kill and dietary guidelines are wrong?
By Marika Sboros PURE is the acronym for a major new (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology) cohort study that is creating controversy about dietary guidelines globally. [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]
Virta Health visionary behind a diabetes ‘cure’ of the future
By Marika Sboros For the future of diabetes treatment, look no further than the US start-up Virta Health and its visionary founder and CEO 41-year-old [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]
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]
Noakes not guilty, ‘did no harm, broke no laws’
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes has been found not guilty of unprofessional conduct for a single tweet in February 2014 saying that good first [more]
Noakes: did disgruntled dietitians set him up?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes did not have a doctor-patient relationship with a breastfeeding mother on Twitter. His tweet caused no harm to her [more]
Noakes: elephant in the room proves he’s not guilty?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes was guilty of unprofessional conduct on “a balance of probability”, advocate Ajay Bhoopchand argued in closing yesterday. He also [more]
Noakes – who ultimately holds the key to his fate
By Marika Sboros What – or who – is really behind the prosecution of scientist Prof Tim Noakes? Where did it actually start. Is it [more]
Alzheimer’s – fat may be a piece of the prevention, ‘reversal’ puzzle
By Marika Sboros Alzheimer’s – the word is enough to strike terror in the hardiest of hearts and minds. Doctors often call Alzheimer’s disease the [more]
AHPRA: ‘rats’ abandon sinking ship after attempts to silence Fettke?
By Marika Sboros The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is facing mass resignations from its medical boards nationally. Like the proverbial rats leaving a [more]
Naudé Review: toxic brew of mistakes, mischief against Noakes?
By Marika Sboros The Naudé Review by South African scientists, published in PLoS One in 2014, was once the foundation of medical and dietetic opposition [more]