New NHS figures showed there were 125,290 cannabis and spice-related hospital admissions in England from April 2013 to March 2018, including 14,888 under-20s. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Niall Campbell, who treats 18-year-olds and older, at Priory’s Roehampton Hospital, said 25% of paranoid psychosis cases were caused by the use of marijuana. “I am seeing an increasing […]
It’s time to act on secondary breast cancer which is the stage when breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body and sadly becomes incurable. It’s the main cause of the 11,500 deaths from the disease every year in the UK. With secondary breast cancer still taking lives on a heart-breaking scale, we need […]
Many children are born with birthmarks on the skin, around 1-2%, called congenital melanocytic naevii which range from being very small, that do not cause a problem, to covering large proportions of the body which may need surgery. This is because they can be lumpy and unsightly, particularly if they are large and covered in […]
If you are one of the estimated 250,000 people in the UK who are prescribed emergency adrenaline for life-threatening allergies, you may be feeling nervous right now. EpiPens, which are autoinjectors carried by people at risk of anaphylaxis, are in short supply. Some people who need them say they can’t get hold of them. ‘EpiPens […]
The rise of self-help books and online ‘sobriety diaries’ for those with alcohol addiction can be dangerous, according to Claire Rimmer, Lead Addictions Therapist at The Priory Hospital, Altrincham. She spoke out in the run up to Go Sober for October amid an increasing trend for people to “blog and brag” about beating their alcohol […]
The growing workload crisis in NHS primary care could be helped by the systematic integration of community health workers at scale, a study shows. Published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the modelling study was led by researchers at Imperial College London. Using a model introduced in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy, they […]
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The annual Heart Rhythm Congress, which takes place this year between 7-10 October at the ICC in Birmingham, is the largest gathering of arrhythmia specialists and patients of its kind in the UK with over 3000 delegates, exhibitors and patient visitors. Organised by the Arrhythmia Alliance, an umbrella charity that include STARS which celebrates its […]
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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 […]
Dame Stephanie Shirley discusses her experiences of CDD (Childhood Disintegrative Disorder). When my son Giles was about 2½ years old, it was already clear that he was learning disabled. But whereas up to then he had progressed day by day, a really scary thing happened. He started – over a very short period – to regress. […]
The UK’s oldest surgical Royal College is switching gears and taking to the road, on the first-ever ‘Cycling Symposium’ across the UK, on Saturday 1st September. On behalf of the 500+ year-old Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a dozen surgeons and surgeons-in-training will be setting off on 1 September on a gruelling seven-day bicycle […]