When I was at medical school and subsequently once I started working as a junior doctor, I encountered a number of patients who complained of ‘hurting all over’. These individuals were almost always of Indian subcontinent heritage, and were usually female. On examination, these patients generally claimed to feel pain wherever you touched them. In [...]

Earlier this month I blogged about some research which suggests that being overweight is not the dire threat to our health and longevity it is so often assumed to be. One reason why the risk of being overweight may be somewhat overstated has to do with the fact there’s a lot of money in persuading [...]