Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) procedures have become plastic surgery’s public enemy number in 2018. But it’s my view that we give this surgery the bum’s rush at our peril. Because despite the wave of negative publicity aimed at BBL ops in recent weeks – much of it warranted – there is a safe way to perform the […]
A new exhibition opening at the Florence Nightingale Museum, in the basement of St Thomas’s Hospital, London, on 21st September explores nursing during history’s deadliest flu pandemic in 1918. Building on Florence Nightingale’s work during the Crimean war, World War I ushered in a new era for military nursing. Women from all walks of life […]
Del Bigtree of Highwire interviews Prof Christopher Exley, following the 2018 11th Autoimmunity Congress held in Lisbon, Portugal. By the Aluminium Research Group – The Bioinorganic Chemistry of Aluminium & Silicon YouTube channel. Presentations, documentaries, interviews, press releases and more can all be found here. Please pay us a visit at www.keele.ac.uk/aluminium where you can […]
Social Masking: Why is autism missed in girls? Is autism really more common in males or is there another reason girls may be missed? […]
Lorraine MacAlister is an autism training consultant and will co-chair the upcoming Autism and Mental Health Conference on the 12th September 2018. As the Author of the NAS Teen Life parent programme, this conference links in with many of the potential challenges that teenagers on the autism spectrum may face. This annual conference is a […]
Measles cases across Europe have hit a record high, causing 37 deaths this year. New figures from the World Health Organisation show a staggering 41,000 cases of measles in the first half of 2018 alone. In 2016, there were just 5,273 cases across the European region. Although the WHO confirmed that UK had eliminated measles in […]
In a recent post – A role for aluminium in multiple sclerosis, we highlighted that individuals with multiple sclerosis excrete high amounts of aluminium in their urine. It was also demonstrated that regular drinking of a silicon-rich mineral water (Why-everyone-should-drink-silicon-rich-mineral-water) facilitated the urinary excretion of aluminium. Elevated urinary excretion of aluminium exacerbated in the short term […]
Asbestos was once hailed as a miracle material that was resistant to heat, chemicals and water. Although it was banned in the UK in 1999, it is still found in our environment in older buildings where it was used as insulation, lagging and a construction material. Here, Rosie Rosati, health advocate for the Mesothelioma + […]
As more cases of Ebola are confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two British experts comment on what is happening and how the virus may be contained. Dr Nicolas Locker, Reader in Virology, at the University of Surrey, said: ‘Only few weeks after confirming the end of an the last Ebola outbreak that started […]
Before plunging into your hotel swimming pool, or soaking in hot tubs during your long-awaited summer holiday, you might want to think twice, especially if you have health problems. What lies beneath the sparkling, inviting surface of the water is something we would rather not think about. As well as being good for your health, […]