IT’S a booming new practice in the hair loss industry – but what’s the real cost of so-called ‘scalp micropigmentation’ – otherwise known as scalp tattoos for bald men? Called either ‘Trichopigmentation’, ‘scalp micropigmentation’ or ‘SMP’ for short, it’s a process where thousands of tiny dots are inked onto the head to give the illusion […]
National Eye Health Week’s six simple sight savers 1. Quit smoking. Smokers have a significantly greater risk of sight loss than non-smokers. Toxic chemicals in tobacco smoke can damage the delicate surface and the internal structure of the eye. This can lead to an increased risk of many eye conditions including AMD; nuclear cataracts; thyroid […]
One million people in the UK are living with avoidable sight loss severe enough to have a significant impact on their daily lives – leaving them unable to do things such as drive. And worryingly, this number is forecast to rise by a third by 2030, if we don’t take action now. Eyesight declines as […]
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Why do we lose interest in sex? Professor Cynthia Graham of the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton discusses how open communication and emotional closeness are linked to fewer low sexual interest problems. ‘Women living with a partner are more than twice as likely to lack interest in sex compared to […]
If you’re tired all the time, you might not merely be working hard, you may have serious underlying medical condition known as obstructive sleep apnoea. It’s my belief that there are many people out there who are suffering from extreme fatigue but don’t know they have sleep apnoea – and they need to seek medical […]
Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder and is a common type of urinary tract infection. Others UTIs include acute pyelonephritis, which affects the kidneys and can lead to loin pain and high fever, and urethritis, which is inflammation of the tube that carries urine from the bladder outside the body. ‘Cystitis, which is caused […]
Statins reduce deaths from coronary heart disease by 28 per cent in men, according to the longest-ever study focusing on men with high levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol and no other risk factors or signs of heart disease. The study, by Imperial College London and University of Glasgow, is published in the journal Circulation today. Previous […]
Women deserve to have a good sex life into their fifties and sixties and beyond and the menopause is too early to just give up on sex. I do encounter women in my practice who have gone through the menopause and throw caution to the wind in terms of practising safe sex but they are […]
One in four people reveal they never or rarely protect their eyes from the sun, despite 83 per cent saying sight is their most important sense, according to a new survey carried out on behalf of the charity Sightsavers which works to eradicate blindness globally. The poll of 2000 UK residents found that 20 per […]
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Could pain killers be hiding underlying arthritis? Thousands of patients with an inflammatory arthritis condition might be being mis-diagnosed because the pain killers they take hide the problem from doctors. A new University of Aberdeen study, funded by Arthritis Research UK, aims to see how big a role patients’ medication plays in slowing down diagnosis […]