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Margaret McCartney qualified in medicine from Aberdeen University in 1994 and is in partnership in Glasgow. She has written for a variety of publications and her FT health column started in July 2005.
Her main interests are the increased medicalisation of life, the certainty of uncertainty, and the ethics and dilemmas of medical research. - -
The best medicine
In the last of her columns for the FT, Margaret McCartney looks back on the two most memorable insights of the last seven years
Life without kissing
Is the mouth-to-mouth technique all it’s cracked up to be? Margaret McCartney examines recent studies that support compression-only resuscitation
Age of innocence
A study in the US journal Pediatrics finds that girls are now likely to enter puberty sooner, and improved nutrition may be the cause, says Margaret McCartney
The waking cure
Research shows that sleep deprivation can be medically therapeutic for people suffering from depression, mania and anxiety, writes Margaret McCartney
Safety in mind
The regulation of psychotherapists is long overdue: patients deserve to be protected, not patronised by those who claim to know best, writes Margaret McCartney
GP knows best
Information and knowledge are all very well, but there is nothing wrong with seeking the reassurance of a fully trained professional, says Margaret McCartney
Brushes, not strokes
There appears to be a link between poor dental hygiene and cardiovascular disease, which may offer an insight into what causes heart attacks, says Margaret McCartney
Follow the script
Why was premenstrual tension a problem a few years ago, but virtually ignored today? Margaret McCartney on faddish illness
Of genes and genomes
Some are predicting that medical treatment can be personalised based on genes, but Margaret McCartney worries that this will produce more dilemmas rather than less
Just forget it
The truth is that most people with memory problems do not have dementia and there is research to prove it, says Margaret McCartney
