Dr David Grimes

White skin - Neanderthal inheritance My younger son Daniel pointed out to me an error in my last post, the topic of which was a recen...

Rickets is a disease of children. Formation of bone is impaired so that the bones become soft. When the child starts to walk the bones of t...

Should there be population screening for coeliac disease ? This Post follows two previous posts on the subject of Coeliac Disease h...

How common is coeliac disease? This follows from the previous post  “ Is there really an epidemic of coeliac disease?” The chara...

How health statistics can misinform -  We hear of and we see many headlines concerning health issues, and most of them are both bad new...

Everyone knows about cholesterol. Everyone “knows” that it is the cause of heart attacks - because that is what they have been told. Everyo...

Only a few years ago very few people would have heard of coeliac disease but things are different today. Most people have heard of it and m...