Health Benefits of Christian Faith
Religion is for 'the hesitant, the guilt-ridden, the excessively timid, those lacking clear convictions with which to face life', (1)...
View ArticleProblem Drinking: the Bigger Picture
The government's education-based 'sensible drinking' strategy for countering alcohol misuse is not evidence-based and is built on the false presuppositions...
View ArticleFacing the Obesity Epidemic
The UK obesity epidemic adversely affects both morbidity and mortality and is fuelled primarily by high calorie foods and reduced...
View ArticleThe Truth about Drugs
Patrick Dixon, author, broadcaster and lecturer on global trends, reviews the drug problem and outlines strategies for prevention and cure. Drug...
View ArticleAshes to Ashes: the Tobacco Industry
In the light of recent legal developments in the US and bad publicity world wide for the Tobacco Industry, Rosemary...
View ArticleAddiction: a View from the Front Line
John Latham looks at substance abuse. 'Freedom is a word I seldom use without meaning' sang Bob Dylan. But freedom is...
View ArticleAddiction: Helping Others and Ourselves
In this article, adapted from a seminar at this year's National CMF Students' Conference, Mick and Sally Leach discuss how...
View ArticleBanning Smoking: a Welcome Proposal
Smoking could be banned in offices and factories, restaurants and most pubs within four years under plans unveiled by the...
View ArticleBeating Burnout
Medicine should be a fulfilling and enjoyable profession; but the pressure of work, impossible targets and deadlines and the loss...
View ArticleDependence and Addiction
Taking drugs may seem exciting to begin with. It may be seen as a means of rebellion against, or escape...
View ArticleDrugs & Alcohol: Why Should We Care?
From a seminar he gave to doctors and students from across Europe-Eurasia at the 2008 ICMDA conference, the author examines...
View ArticleCaring for ourselves
Pablo Martinez warns how easy it is to neglect our own personal well-being. They made me take care of their vineyards,...
View ArticleHard Questions about Health and Healing
Society is obsessed with health but uncertain what it is. Modern medicine's 'miracles' appear to offer eternal life but ultimately...
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