In my Mail on Sunday 📰 column this weekend

🤍Lady Gaga got help for her migraines- can you?

🤍Mammograms after breast cancer

🤍Foot pain

🤍And why I admire Louise Thompson revealing her stoma

Something I've been worrying about and broadcasting on for at least 5 years or so, but dissenters like myself are silenced:

Celebrity campaigns have contributed to an “overmedicalisation” of the menopause and a view that older women are “diseased”. The experts warned that the…

An astonishing update in the PA saga. The NHS has quietly begun rolling out PA apprenticeships - which allows new hires to work with patients with no medical training at all.

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🚨 Dannii has lived with a drug resistant UTI for 12 years - so why has the NHS essentially given up on her?

She's just one of a growing number of superbug patients the health service is failing, according to a new report

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Because of HIV/AIDS denialism, Christine Maggiore and her 4 year-old daughter are dead. Christine was infected with HIV and refused to take anti-virals that would have kept her alive and prevented her from passing it to her daughter. Both died needlessly of AIDS. Lies like those…

After this interview Patrick Christys and I chatted about whether or not addiction is a disease. Interested in your thoughts Peter Hitchens (Patrick told me he didn’t disagree with your opinion on the subject) dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

I’m not really one to talk out my private life in public, but if Patrick’s and my experience can help anyone, it’s absolutely worth it. Frankly, it was a scary time, full of stress and worry. I’m so proud of Patrick for proving he can do this 💪🏻

Not often you get an insight like this into just how addiction takes hold. Thanks to Patrick Christys for being so frank. Read the full interview in the Mail today, link in the post below.

Pharmacy First is here. Our very own Dr Ellie explains how it's actually going to work (and whether or not you're going to have the answer embarrassing questions while standing at the counter). dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

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This is not a #measles rash!

We must use proper pictures in health news so the stories get out accurately ☹️☹️

(This is chicken pox)

What is it about health grifters and funnelling coffee into their bums? The latest advocate is Ben Greenfield who claims it has helped give him the metabolic age of a nine year old. dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

I do a lot of research. Which is published, open access, in scientific journals.

You can access my papers by searching for the title of the study. Or visiting joyceharper.com where I’ve summarised my scientific and academic work and provided the UCL link to my papers.

We looked into the advice of the longevity gurus to see what stood up. Will following them keep you young? Unsurprisingly it’s a no to Bryan Johnson’s one small vegan meal a day starvation diet. I’m actually surprised he’s not very ill. dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

Are ear seeds 'snake oil'? Probably. But doctors we spoke to suggested there's no harm trying alternative remedies like these, and Giselle Boxer might well have found they helped her. Oh and Kate Moss used them to quit cocaine. Read all about it: dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

Interesting opinions on reasons for the measles outbreak including obvious Daily Mail/Mel Phillips blaming (lazy oversimplification). This has come up a lot too:

Many people do not have faith in the current UKHSA chief executive who was a failure of the pandemic.

Thoughts?

Keen to hear anyone’s thoughts on the change in guidance for Roaccutane/isotretinoin - dermatologists we spoke to in the article below absolutely hate it and say it’s causing treatment delays. Read the story here: dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

We've learned that dermatologists are trying to overturn strict new safety guidelines around giving under 18s acne drug isotretinoin, which has been linked in Yellow Card reports to suicides. dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

Chatted to Dr Karan for Mail+ earlier about his brilliant new book - I highly recommend you read it! In an age of TikTok medical bs what a massive force for good this guy is.

And we’re off! Here’s the fruits of my new labour (?): Daily Mail US’ brand spanking new wellness channel, full of essential myth-busting and run by yours truly 👋dailymail.co.uk/health/article…