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]
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Fettke free at last as AHPRA drops all charges
By Marika Sboros Australian orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke is a free and vindicated man. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has dropped all [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]
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]
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]
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]
FETTKE: VICTIM OF KANGAROO COURT DOWN UNDER? Part 2
This is the final of a two-part series on the strange case of Australian orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke. The country’s medical regulatory body has banned [more]
FETTKE: VICTIM OF KANGAROO COURT DOWN UNDER? Part 1
Why does Australia’s medical regulatory body so badly want Dr Gary Fettke to stop talking to his patients about nutrition? In the first of a [more]
KENDRICK: SWEDEN GETS IT RIGHT WITH ‘IDIOT’ DIETITIANS
Trust Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick to get down and dirty to the heart of medical ethical dilemmas. Kendrick doesn’t suffer fools gladly. In particular [more]
Why Dr Gary Fettke can’t talk to patients about sugar
By Marika Sboros Australian orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke can no longer advise his diabetic patients on nutrition to prevent limb amputation. In particular, he [more]
Gary Fettke turns into ‘Australia’s Tim Noakes’!
By Marika Sboros The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has banned orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke from giving nutrition advice. It has done so after a [more]
Perfect storm of heart disease: how to protect yourself
Cardiologists are quick to reach for the prescription pad for patients with heart disease. Ditto for endocrinologists faced with diabetics. It’s as if they believe [more]
Cancer therapy of the future? Already here, says Fettke!
The metabolic model of cancer has to be one of the most exciting areas of research these days. Australian orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke is [more]