Author: Dr Ross Walker

Following the recent Glasgow Climate Summit, otherwise known as COP26, you would have to be living under a rock if you did not believe, after the tone of this meeting, that the major catastrophe around the world is climate change. Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash With all of the world…

It is estimated that just over 15,500 people per year, in Australia alone, will develop bowel cancer. Bowel cancer accounts for 11% of all deaths from cancer making it the second most common cause of cancer deaths in Australia. Despite the reduction in smoking to around 13% of the adult…

By Dr Stephanie Mathieson & Dr Ross Walker Paracetamol, the humble, simple analgesic, was first used clinically in 1893 but did not appear commercially until 1956 in Australia1. Also known as acetaminophen in North America and Japan, it is the most commonly used pain-relieving medicine, partly because of its low…

Photo by Jakob Cotton on Unsplash If experts have given us the wrong information over many years, should they come out with an apology for misleading the public? We have been told by many conservative organisations in the medical profession and dietary world for a number of decades that we should be…

As with most aspects of science, there is typically the protagonist and the antagonist. One of the great examples here is that of supplementation. Image source: Michele Blackwell, Unsplash The argument used by many people in the conservative medical world is that if you consume a good diet, there is…