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Sex and Gender

Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 2

Continued from Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1 The Myths (Part 1) … Myth 1: 98% of all studies in this area were ignoredMyth 2: Cass recommended no Trans Healthcare for Under 25s.Myth 3: Cass is demanding only Double Blind Randomised Controlled Trials be used as evidence in “Trans Healthcare”Myth 4: There were less than 10 detransitioners out of 3499 patients in the Cass study. The Myths (Part 2)… Myth 5: The Cass Review is worthless because it is not Peer ReviewedMyth 6: The proposed service is based on the idea that [read more...]

Sex and Gender

Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1

It has now been just little under a week since the publication of the long anticipated NHS independent review of gender identity services for children and young people, the Cass Review. The review recommends sweeping [read more...]

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What Doctors Don’t Tell You – A Publishing Sensation

by Andy L in featured 335

Hot on the heels of the new killer magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You we are seeing an explosion of new titles trying to mimic its success. Here is the original and a raft of copycat titles. Enjoy. If the original has disturbed you, and the associated threats to [read more...]

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Should Cochrane Call for More Research Into Homeopathy?

by Andy L in featured 14

The Cochrane Collaboration is an independent network of volunteers, funded only by donations, that collate systematic reviews of the evidence base for healthcare interventions. You can go online and view for yourself the current best thinking on how effective various treatments are. It is an important resource. (And you can [read more...]