Evening Standard (London): the top ten... Medicine men

'When you talk about postpartum depression, you can take women today and what you do is use vitamins,' said Tom Cruise (who has never fathered a child of his own). The star of the new War of the Worlds movie was gaily dishing out advice to Brooke Shields who has admitted taking antidepressants.

You are a Scientologist not scientist, Tom. Duh.

Not content with being the future King, Prince Charles is also a medical expert. The newly wed Royal extols the virtues of 'acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine and controlled breathing', claiming they 'have shown mass benefit and should be freely available on the NHS'.

Breathing on the NHS? You clearly need a royal warrant.

Caprice's concern for the wellbeing of the sick in Africa is positively saintly.

'I knocked someone over in Mombasa,' she said recently.

'He broke his leg, I think, but I gave him Pounds 10 and he seemed really pleased.' A useful Samaritan if ever there was one: Mother Theresa, please keep a space warm for one more up there.

Sadie Frost firmly believes in her own medical magic.

The separated swinger prefers sticking hot glasses to her body over good, old-fashioned aspirin. Following a recent back injury, Sadie turned to 'cupping', a medieval acupuncture using hot cups, which apparently cures all ills. 'It's amazing,' she says.

A touch for Frost.

Nice guy Daniel Bedingfield is the antithesis of rock'n'roll.

The sober singer has been preaching to all who will listen about the perils of drugs, adding that after a recent car crash he was still able to shun painkillers. 'I hate drugs. I'm worried they'll mess up my brain.' He adds: 'I can dance all night without drugs.' Whatever gets you through this.

If he believes in karma, the twice-wed actor Richard Gere needs to improve his bedside manner. When asked to pose with two severely disabled young fans at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, the Buddhist refused, replying, 'I'm hard of hearing and have a bad hip. We all have problems.' Not an officer or a gentleman. Or a doctor.

You may think it's all a load of Kabbalah but there's also a less mystical side to Madonna.

The Material Girl once claimed that urine is the key to healthy toes. 'Did you know it's good to pee in the shower?' she once told an unsuspecting journalist. 'I'm serious. It fights athlete's foot. Urine is like an antiseptic.' She must have got swept away.

Health nut and fitness trainer Carole Caplin is offering advice again, although this time it's not exclusively to Cherie Blair. The lifestyle guru has decided that childhood immunisation is simply 'medicalised Russian roulette', and instead promotes the benefits of 'shamanism, electronic-gem, thought-field therapies and spiritual healing'. Don't blame us for Fostering doubts.

A life of lounging around on yachts moored at St Tropez's Nikki Beach has meant that Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is an expert in the art of tanning.

So it comes as no surprise that she's got some tips on curing sunburn should you forget the sunscreen. 'Slice raw tomatoes and put them on burnt skin,' says the It Girl.

Aah, those salad days.

She may have stopped putting chemicals up her nose but that doesn't stop Naomi Campbell giving them to others.

When a friend of the Streatham stropper got a nosebleed recently, the supermodel was seen trying to help by putting perfume up her friend's nostrils claiming the alcohol in it would dry them up. Just another way for Naomi to get up noses everywhere.