

Coffee or me?...
The other day there was a report in the news that said that coffee was very good for you. Equally, other reports suggest that coffee can...


Mapping Moles and Melanomas: Do Melanomas Mostly Arise in Moles?
Mapping Moles and Melanomas: Do Melanomas Mostly Arise in Moles? Moles are not full stops Nor commas They may lie But sometimes they...


An Inconvenient Truth about Skin Cancer (over)Treatments.
Dermatologist He’s earning his living Skinning me ~ From the poem “Melanihaiku 1” (“De Natura Melanoma”: poems by Sharad P. Paul,...


Humpty Dumpty and The Theory of Egg-cellence
For nearly two decades, I have spent a day a week (when I am not away on book or lecture tours) teaching creative writing to school...


Eating an orange a day may keep the doctor away
Evolutionary changes may be major epochal productions, planned thousands of years in advance but they exhibit a simple truism that has...


Beyond the Biology of Belief
I meant to pop this article up on my website blog some time back - but one thing led to another and, well, here I am doing it now. I know...


Do you vote Tory or Labour? The answer may lie in your genes!
With Theresa May having called an early election, and the UK gearing up for the polls, I thought I would look at how our genes impact our...


The London Underground: Genes, Germs and Geography
There is a saying that you can take a boy out of a village, but you can never take a village out of a man. I was born in England, and...


Why get your genes tested? Some myths and misconceptions explained
I must say before I wrote The Genetics of Health (Simon and Schuster, 2017) I myself was a bit sceptical about the value of getting...


Two articles I think you might like to read...
Two articles posted on Beyond Words - one taken from my new book - The Genetics of Health. It's available from Simon and Schuster, Amazon...